Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.