Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated...they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.