As any poet knows, a system is a way of looking at the world. - Gerald Weinberg

Newton was a genius, but not because of the superior computational power of his brain. Newton's genius was, on the contrary, his ability to simplify, idealize, and streamline the world so that it became, in some measure, tractable to the brains of perfectly ordinary men.

The Third Law of Consulting: Never forget they're paying you by the hour, not by the solution.

The Second Law of Consulting: No matter how it looks at first, it's always a people problem.