Methodical Process Quotes

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.

If you work in a certain manner, you don't make mistakes.

I never stop to plan. I take things step by step.

I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

Everything in life is a checklist, whether it's building a birdhouse or building a kitchen. If you don't have a checklist, you're much more likely to forget something.

Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by slow, successive steps. And there is a plan of things beforehand laid out, which, from the nature of it, requires various systems of means, as well as length of time, in order to the carrying on its several parts into execution.

I'm a pretty analytical guy, all right?

Science is nothing, but trained and organized common sense.

Order doesn't come by itself.

The worth of the mind consisteth not in going high, but in marching orderly.

I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.

In my worldview, there are filers, and there are pilers. Filers think alphabetically. Pilers think geologically.

Haste makes work which caution prevents.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

I have an obsession with details and pattern.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive.

We want to do this methodically, smart, starting with border security then looking at immigration reform measures.