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.

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

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

They tell you to forget about love while in the fact they are living for love

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

Now, if anything at all can be known to be wrong, it seems to me to be unshakably certain that it would be wrong to make any sentient being suffer eternally for any offence whatever.

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.