If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

Anything worth achieving is worth overachieving.