There are a million ways to lose a work day, but not even a single way to get one back.

Computer system analysis is like child-rearing; you can do grievous damage, but you cannot ensure success.

Get the right people. Then no matter what all else you might do wrong after that, the people will save you. That's what management is all about.

You can't control what you can't measure

The purpose of a team is not goal attainment but goal alignment.

The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

The more you focus on control, the more likely you're working on a project that's striving to deliver something of relatively minor value.

Quality is free, but only to those who are willing to pay heavily for it.

Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

First law of Bad Management: If something isn't working, do more of it.

The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed.

The opportunity to work with women who are at the top of my list of people I'd want to work with and who are my favorite women to watch on screen, was fantastic.

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing.

It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973].

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

I want to be surrounded by women, I want to be snuggled and cuddled and pampered.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Bitcoin represents a significant threat to the currency domination of the USA, which is the only thing propping up the nation’s status as a worldwide superpower.

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.