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The objective of education is learning, not teaching

It is far better to do the right thing wrong than to do the wrong thing right.

Creativity is the ability to identify self-imposed constraints, remove them, and explore the consequences of their removal.

So much time is currently spent in worrying about the future that the present is allowed to go to hell.

The future is better dealt with using assumptions than forecasts.

Unless people can express themselves well in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.

The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about many things.

Managers who don't know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.

To manage a system effectively, you might focus on the interactions of the parts rather than their behavior taken separately.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.

Our ability to solve problem is limited by our conception of what is feasible.