Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

We believe in the wisdom once expressed by the hockey star Wayne Gretzky, who explained his success by saying, 'I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.'

Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.

If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.

The more one produces, the less one gets.

Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.