The Scalpel Is Only As Good As The Surgeon Who Uses It, Not All Tools Are Created Equally. A Scalpel is a commodity, the surgeon who uses it to save your life is not. — Not all tools are created equally, choose the right tool for the right job, not just because that tool Is the cheapest and the “sales guy” said it would “work”.

The Pregnant Woman Theory If one woman can make a baby in 9 months, then 9 women can make a baby in 30 days. Now you may laugh, but this is the most common problem in developing a new product. Throwing more resources at the problem and praying it goes away does not solve anything.

Stepping Over A Stack Of $100 Bills To Pick Up A Penny We can’t spend $10 on an off the shelf tool but we can spend $1,000 to develop our own, which doesn’t work and causes more problems than it solves.

Champagne On A Beer Budget Expecting everything for free and having It done yesterday. This is a very common occurrence especially when subcontractors are hired. I want to hire an Engineer with 3 PhD’s, and 30 years of experience for minimum wage

You Never Run Out Of Things That Go Wrong There will always be an endless supply of challenges and things that go wrong. Pretending there aren't any problems doesn't make them go away.

A Plan Is Just A List Of Stuff That Didn’t Happen & Everything Takes Longer, And Costs More Than You Planned

Good, Fast, Cheap… Pick Any Two We never have time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over….. and over….. and over….. I hear time and time again. Just get it done right now, we’ll fix it later.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

Words are charms. Its like a song you didnt even know you knew.

I'm a pretty big P.J. Harvey record fan and you can really hear New York in his record.

So many people grew up in the church, and you can have an awesome upbringing, but I made a personal conviction; I made a personal decision when I was very young. I enjoy going to church without my parents. On Sunday mornings, I want to go. Bible studies on Wednesdays... I have a relationship - not just through my parents.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do, she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

We took the position we wanted our people to be better than minimum wage, so we're going to pay better than minimum wage, and we still do that.

I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.

The police need to come down to street level.

I've made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I've spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious - we all love the guys in black.

I hate to be smart.

Supported by digital data, new data-driven tools, and payment policies that reward improving the quality and value of care, doctors, hospitals, patients, and entrepreneurs across the nation are demonstrating that smarter, better, more accessible, and more proactive care is the best way to improve quality and control health care costs.

For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.

I grew up in the Ukraine 'til I was about 7, and then I moved to L.A.

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.

I think Tilda Swinton is terribly interesting. I think she's fascinating. I love her work.

My nickname is Esta Bell.

I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

Some people came up with story lines where Colonel Potter moves in with Klinger, and we become a 1950s' odd couple. I said, 'Come on, let's do something significant.'