You can't control what you can't measure

Now you can make the case that it's driving innovation offshore. If you want to start a new software company that does something imaginative and wonderful, you have every incentive to start that company in Slovenia or China or a place that doesn't have these rules.

Craziness is doing the same thing and expecting a different result

Quality takes time and reduces quantity, so it makes you, in a sense, less efficient. The efficiency-optimized organization recognizes quality as its enemy. That's why many corporate Quality Programs are really Quality Reduction Programs in disguise.

Popularity is the pocket change of history. The true measure is courage. There will never be another Charlton Heston.

"Let love be the yardstick which measures the depth, of understanding for those we truly care about." - Tom Baker