Training is practice doing a new task much more slowly than an expert would do it.

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

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

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.

There is something fascinatingly awkward about an author photo. I'm drawn to those glossy shots in the back of books, mostly because the subjects never look happy to be there.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

One is worthy as a son when he removes all his father’s troubles.

Photographs, it seems to me, are both moments in time and bits of memory.

The here-and-now is no mere filling of time but a filling of time with God.

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

I think I'm too young to be a mogul. I think I'm too young for that.