If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

At any given moment, there is always a line representing what your boss will believe. If you step over it, you will not get your budget. Go as close to that line as you can.

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It might help if we ran the MBAs out of Washington.