A bureaucrat is one who has the power to say "no" but none to say "yes."

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

Art inspires, produces an unwillingness to settle for what we have and a desire for something better. It is the product and producer of creative activity, change; it is essential for continuous development.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Every problem interacts with other problems and is therefore part of a set of interrelated problems, a system of problems. I choose to call such a system a mess.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.