It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.

The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.

Too close a view may interfere with one's grasp of an overall problem or concept.

Instead of trying to specify a system in full detail, specify it only somewhat. You can then ride on the dynamics of the system in the direction you want to go.

If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control.

Management problems are not respecters of the company organization, nor of the talents of the people appointed to solve them.

It is the concept of likelihood that a real understanding of probability resides, and we must learn how to measure it.

A slowly moving queue does not move uniformly. Rather, waves of motion pass down the queue. The frequency and amplitude of these waves is inversely related to the speed at which the queue is served.

The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.

The strategies that managers employ are at least as important as the facilities at their disposal.

A stochastic process is about the results of convolving probabilities-which is just what management is about, as well.

Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn’t join the Army. That shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative.

You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides.

Living on borders and in margins, keeping intact one's shifting and multiple identity and integrity, is like trying to swim in a new element, an "alien" element.

It's easier for me to say what God is not, and then what God is.

If the present is any guide, government-sanctioned, counterfeit history is in your future.

The only purpose of starting is to finish

Silicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.