Executability Quotes & Sayings

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures. — Andy Grove

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo

The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments. — Mackenzi Lee

I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me. — Patrick Stewart

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. — Janis Joplin

You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants. — Mark R. Woodward

The properties of executability and universality associated with programming languages can be combined, in a single language, with the well-known properties of mathematical notation which make it such an effective tool of thought. — Kenneth E. Iverson

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. — Walter Bagehot

A person cannot trust another more than they can be trusted. — Paula Dickerson

She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest. — Dennis Lehane