The manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.

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 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.

Life is a race against disappearing time

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns"(After Brooke White of season 7 on american idol sang the song 'Hero'by Mariah Carey)

The werewolf pointed at a bench next to the door into the Kirkwoods’ tomb. “Sit. Wait.”Did I mention werewolves were chatty?

The programmers have another saying: 'The question of whether a machine can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.'

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Everyone has the right to practice their religion, to worship as they choose. My war is against Islamic fundamentalism.

To me, the responsibility of an actor is to recreate humanity honestly. I never feel like an actor, I always look at it from a blue collar perspective.

Since the civil war in Laos was resumed in earnest in 1963, American participation has been veiled in secrecy.

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

The cool thing for me about moving to New York was that I got to create a new family.