A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

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.

The opinion of success matters more than the opinions of your critics.

God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer.

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

I threw all my clothes away from high school.

A Libyan rebel has admitted to killing Moammar Gadhafi. He said he shot Gadhafi twice in the temple, to which Michele Bachmann said, "I didn't even know the guy was Jewish.

You cannot win a battle in any arena merely by defending yourself.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Where do you put the fear when you choose to innovate? The fear is there, but you have to find a place to put it.

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.