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

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.

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

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.

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.

Collect memories

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the collapse of our own.

Truth, for any man, is that which makes him a man.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

I am the hit-maker, the record-breaker. I got style and grace, a pretty face. I'll make your back crack, your liver quiver.

I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

I'm maybe too rude with myself but the fact is that I don't know music theory so I can't tell myself "it's ok now I make good stuff," I need to improve more and more.

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.