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.

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

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.

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 loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

I'm impressed with how 'Newsweek's' outstanding staff has continued to put out a lively, well-informed magazine after the departure of their tireless editor, Jon Meacham.

Contributing to GOP unity, Pence is a churchgoing evangelical family man.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

Inspiration leads to invention. Tenacity is the breeding ground for inspiration. There can be no invention in the absence of tenacity.

I always enjoy rhythms and melodies, but I always use my voice as more of an instrument and less of a soapbox for me to say or to preach.

I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.

Who can blind lover's eyes?

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

I'm currently working on a Mind Siege for youth.

Germany is probably the richest country in Western Europe. Yet they wouldn't take any television with Duke and Ella, their reaction being that people weren't interested in it.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

The diva tag just won't go away. I think that's because people want me to be like that. It makes it more interesting if I have thrown a phone at somebody or a water bottle. Sadly that's just not me.

Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

I'm a big, big blues fan and the last several years I've really invested in the blues a lot, and I think my playing is getting better because of it - not necessarily better on a technical level, but certainly on a level of appropriateness.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions.

If you smile at me I will understand because that is something everyone everywhere does in the same language.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.