I wasn't cut out to be an opera singer, but it was a nice fantasy for a teenager growing up in Hungary during the Stalinist era.

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

It's not enough to make time for your children. There are certain stages in their lives when you have to give them the time when they want it. You can't run your family like a company. It doesn't work.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

Only the paranoid survive.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them.

How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.