Visual supervision is a joke for development workers. Visual supervision is for prisoners.

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

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.

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.

These Days, Keeping Anything "Simple" Is The Most "Complex" Task To Do....

You're very old, aren't you?""Just as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

I have both English bulldog determination and Bengal tiger strength.

Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

They see a work ethic in both of us. But, they also see that my husband is more in control of his future, and I am more reliant on other sources for my career.

One beloved friend reflects the other in an open, trusting relationship.

We're in a dangerous phase right now where too many millions of Americans aren't listening at all to what the press tells them, and that concerns me.

God does not call us to rest seven days a week with our head in the sand. He calls us to make an impact wherever we are.

Free Tibet before free trade.