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.

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.

Women on television are not a fad; we are not a trend - we are a reality!

No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.

It's amazing when I do a gig how many people of different ages come up to me afterwards and chat to me about songs. The emotions I feel are what any person can relate to. Sometimes I'm just a narrator.

Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketplace. The opportunity is to get out from under the negative history and figure out the value AOL offers for consumers and for publishers and advertisers.

I hate bananas so much, it verges on a phobia.

Life is good - we forget that.

I have no interest in making music that's built for an antique shop.

The power of nature is such that it’s what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship.

Which is the best government That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

If you go down as a comedian's comedian, that's basically meaning other comedians are hopefully feeling that you're doing okay.

It is very difficult to know what may be in the back of the mind of public figures.

The eyes start love; intimacy perfects it.

Cold hands, warm heart

The ones you judge today, may be the judgments you endure tomorrow.

I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.

Every canvas that can awaken us more exquisitely and accurately to the infinite and various surface of our experience does that much to sharpen life and thereby render it more alive.

The 1990s, in New York at least, were all about who could have the baggiest pants, and I definitely got swept up in that fad. Luckily, it didn't last long - but I've made sure that my pants fit ever since.

In New York, you are competing with Times Square lights and all of that, so you've got to be 300 pounds and crazy to get anyone's attention. Then, you can refine yourself. I always knew under those 300 pounds and tracksuits was a refined, slim, dignified man.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Fight with a happy heart.