Myron Tribus quotes

“If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.”
-- Myron Tribus

Source : "Quality First: Selected Papers on Quality & Productivity Improvement". Book by Myron Tribus, Washington, D.C.: National Society of Professional Engineers (#1459), 1992.

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“Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.”
-- Myron Tribus

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“Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.”
-- Myron Tribus

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“You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.”
-- Myron Tribus

Source : "You Cannot Lead What You Do Not Understand - You Do Not Understand What You Haven't Done". Journal of Innovative Management, Fall 1996.

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“David Langford, illustrates the difference between teaching and learning in a little story. He says, 'You know, last Wednesday I taught my dog to whistle. I really did. I taught him to whistle. It was hard work. I really went at it very hard. But I taught him to whistle. Of course, he didn't learn, but I taught.'”
-- Myron Tribus

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“When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say… The examination as a test of the past is of no value for increased learning ability. Like all external motivators, it can produce a short term effect, but examinations for the purpose of grading the past do not hook a student on learning for life.”
-- Myron Tribus

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“The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.”
-- Myron Tribus

Source : Myron Tribus (2016). “Rational Descriptions, Decisions and Designs: Pergamon Unified Engineering Series”, p.15, Elsevier

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“My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.”

“I've got the 30 drive right now. You turn 30, I don't know, life is exciting again; thirties is when you've got it all figured out. You start reaching some of your goals, and achieving some great things.”

“I've never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.”

“I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.”

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”

“As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.”

“Wit is artificial; humor is natural. Wit is accidental; humor is inevitable. Wit is born of conscious effort; humor, of the allotted ironies of fate. Wit can be expressed only in language; humor can be developed sufficiently in situation.”

“Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.”