The best meetings get real work done. When your people learn that your meetings actually accomplish something, they will stop making excuses to be elsewhere.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation.

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

You can take care of everything except chance. Chance can kill you.

Design a life! Don't maintain it.

We need to get more people watching boxing. I love this sport and anything we can do to help it is great.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

Things that can't go on forever... don't.

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better.

I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.