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 love bummer songs.

I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.

The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

The emanistic theories which played so great a part in Neoplatonic philosophy and Gnostic theology are forms of evolution.

But the more we search the Scriptures, the more we perceive, in this doctrine, the fundamental truth of the gospel - that truth which gives to redemption its character, and to all other truths their real power.

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

I really don't feel like I'm in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I don't expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

I have two dream roles: One would be a biopic of someone I admire and respect and the other one would be some sort of action drama film similar to a 'Bourne Identity.' I just really want to do an intelligent action drama film.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

I think that's a part of what motivates me in my teaching and writing. Once the Gospel feels mainstream and becomes a nicely organized, orchestrated belief system, frankly, I don't think there is even an attraction to the human spirit.

Good comedians are great philosophers.

You've got to really know your song, inside and out.

I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer.

Costa Rica is not afraid to go before any international body.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you before you were born I set you apart.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

I think of my actions every day: what seems to be important and what isn't.