It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.
The job can't be finished only improved to please the customer.
Eighty-five percent of the reasons for failure are deficiencies in the systems and process rather than the employee. The role of management is to change the process rather than badgering individuals to do better.
Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.
It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.
I had concluded when I was the prosecutor that I would vote against the death penalty if I were in the legislature but that I could ask for it when I was satisfied as to guilt.
I have noticed. . . that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.