An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far from the earth, from towns, from trees. The clock ticks on. The dials, the radio lamps, the various hands and needles go though their invisible alchemy. . . . and when the hour is at hand the pilot may glue his forehead to the window with perfect assurance. Out of oblivion the gold has been smelted: there it gleams in the lights of the airport.

What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute.

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.