Expected Outcomes Quotes

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

If you just give somebody a blank check without any deliverables associated with that, you're not going to get the improvements that you want to get.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

The remediableness criterion is an effort to deal symmetrically with real world institutions, both public and private, warts and all. The criterion is this: an extant mode of organization for which no superior feasible form of organization can be described and implemented with expected net gains is presumed to be efficient.

I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.

People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when they get hit by tornadoes, but when you live in Tornado Alley you can't really claim surprise.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.