Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

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.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Impatience dries the blood sooner than age or sorrow.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

I don't know what happened. One minute, I was dreamin' about a fat piece of George Clooney and a hot date with some brown sugar pound cake, and the next thing I knew, the house was coming down on us.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

I just try to surround myself with good, positive supportive people who are trying to make the world better.

Can't wait to start camp on Monday. Feeling really hungry this year. Watch out world.

There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers.