Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci
It is no drama, if the project doesn’t go according to plan. It is a drama, if the project manager doesn’t know anything about it.
Peter Hobbs
The errors which arise from the absence of facts are far more numerous and more durable than those which result from unsound reasoning respecting true data.
Charles Babbage
Ingenious people start great works, diligent people finish them.
Leonardo da Vinci
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Benjamin Franklin
If an engineer has not had some failures, it is merely evidence that his practice has not been sufficiently extensive.
Benjamin Baker
No plan survives contact with reality. (Inspired by “No plan survives the first enemy contact”)
Helmuth von Moltke
The boundaries of concrete are the boundaries of our imagination.
Bernd Hillemeier
Experience is called the sum of all our mistakes.
Thomas Alva Edison
One should never be so busy as to have no time left for contemplation.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg