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

No problem stays solved in a dynamic environment.

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

The most valuable and least replacable resource is time.

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

A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution.

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