The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation.

Hardware works best when it matters the least.

Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.

People do not win people fights. Lawyers do.

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

The early bird gets the worm. The early worm... gets eaten.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

Law Number IX: Acronyms and abbreviations should be used to the maximum extent possible to make trivial ideas profound ... Q.E.D.

Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

Learning to speak is like learning to shoot.

Areas with lots of college students/young people can be a minefield, so I tend to avoid them.

Angels do not have bodies in the traditional sense, but they have etheric forms that we can feel. Most of us are feeling the angels more than any other connection.

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led inexorably to her.

If you will help run our government in the American way, then there will never be any danger of our government running America in the wrong way.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

An ethic isn't a fact you can look up. It's a way of thinking.