To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Successful problem solving requires finding the right solution to the right problem. We fail more often because we solve the wrong problem than because we get the wrong solution to the right problem.

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thouroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

You know what would be awesome? . . . If I could have a machete.

Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

Donald Trump's insulting comments about women go hand in hand with his plans to defund Planned Parenthood and appoint Supreme Court justices who will end legal abortion.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.