In the early days at Asymetrix, we were focusing on business automation.

Then are there no rules at all, Lord?" Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria. Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. "Perhaps one. Short—term decisions tend to fail in the long—term.

Good administrators make immediate choices." "Acceptable choices?" "They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other hand, hesitates, diddles around, asks for committees, for research and reports. Eventually, he acts in ways which create serious problems.

With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them—both reflex and hard ray—cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered everything.

Most of the Houses have grown fat by taking few risks. One cannot truly blame them for this; one can only despise them.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

Blitzscaling is always managerially inefficient - and it burns through a lot of capital quickly. But you have to be willing to take on these inefficiencies in order to scale up. That's the opposite of what large organizations optimize for.

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

I never faked my emotions or my desire to be a winner.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.