I need to keep reinventing myself.
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 manager's function is not to make people work, but to make it possible for people to work.
If you find yourself concentrating on the technology rather than the sociology, you're like the vaudeville character who loses his keys on a dark street and looks for them on the adjacent street because, as he explains, "The light is better there. "
We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.
It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.
There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.