Steve

“Gamgee does not talk. If he does, I really shall turn him into”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“account”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“The truly important events on the outside are not the trends. They are changes in the trends. These determine ultimately success or failure of an organization and its efforts. Such changes, however, have to be perceived; they cannot be counted, defined, or classified. The classifications still produce the expected figures—as they did for the Edsel. But the figures no longer correspond to actual behavior.”
― Peter F. Drucker, The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done