I'm always soul searching on a spiritual level.
Organizational busy work tends to expand to fill the working day.
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.
There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
But I feel like I can go out there and do what I need to do.
The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.