Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

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.

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.

It is the satisfaction we derive from 'going there' in contrast to the satisfaction derived from 'getting there.' Recreation provides 'the pause that refreshes.' It recreates creators.

On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.

When people try to bury you, remind yourself you are a seed.

The fact that people are in positions does not justify the means that they are leaders. A leader can be blind and to know this, check his sense of vision.

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.

Once you've given advice to someone, you're obligated.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

Every time I bring an album it's like I'm bringing in the plague, once again. I don't actually know what category it all falls into, but I've stopped worrying about it.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.