"If there's anything that we have learned over these past three months, 
it's that we underestimated how long it would take to complete someone else's work."
- Pat Shanahan, The Boeing Company - 16 Jan 2008  (regarding the delay of the 787)
http://www.sae.org/aeromag/technewsletter/080219Aero/09.htm


"Plans are nothing; planning is everything." 

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, 
but planning is indispensable."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower



"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Albert Einstein



"Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; 
in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and 
force: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Autobiography of Mark Twain