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.

The Book of Life was created as a tool for humans to use to grow in wisdom knowledge and power.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

There are still plenty of people who want to burn me at the stake for my Wonder Woman run. And I can't really blame them, you know? That was my take on the character, and when people are invested in the characters, they see them very clearly and in the way they like.

The greatest flood has the soonest ebb the sorest tempest the most sudden calm the hottest love the coldest end and from the deepest desire oftentimes ensues the deadliest hate.

Remember the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.

I'm not big on the pasty because they say the pastry in the pasty can bring on indigestion.

Women's liberation is the liberation of the feminine in the man and the masculine in the woman.

I don't have a problem with enthusiasm.

A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.

The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

Anytime we make additional investment in a coal plant, we are really challenging whether that investment is economic.

Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.

Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.

At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.

You need to have tremendous confidence in your work, even a touch of arrogance, chutzpah. Many very fine researchers lack intellectual daring. It's human nature to want to be cozy, secure. But that can be a cul de sac.

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

My four years in Russia end, then, in dramatic fashion: with a textbook Soviet-style expulsion. I am the first western staff correspondent to suffer this fate since the end of the Cold War. I'm stunned. But my expulsion is not, I reflect, a surprise. It's something I have always accepted as a real, if far-fetched, possibility.

Nothing is impossible the word itself says Im possible

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.