I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
We must define quality as conformance to specifications if we are to manage it.
Successful people breed success.
When in doubt, delete it.
A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.
It is not possible to know what you need to learn.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
You can only analyze the data you have. Be strategic about what to gather and how to store it
Banality is sometimes striking.
And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.
It is impossible for anyone who studies the life and character of the great Prophet of Arabia, who knows how he taught and how he lived, to feel anything but reverence for that mighty Prophet, one of the great messengers of the Supreme. And although in what I put to you I shall say many things which may be familiar to many, yet I myself feel whenever I re-read them, a new way of admiration, a new sense of reverence for that mighty Arabian teacher.