Either you run the day or the day runs you.

All achievement, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

The finest task for an Engineer – to survey, to plan, to suggest resources and material, assemble them for task in hand, implement and produce results.

Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

'To Start Press Any Key'. Where's the ANY key?

There is little success where there is little laughter.

If it's me against 48, I feel sorry for the 48.

The successful leader must plan his work and work his plan.

There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.