“No plan survives the first encounter with your enemy, so why bother to make one?”

“Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?”

“No plan survives contact with the enemy”

“No plan of battle survives contact with the enemy, and time is the ultimate opponent.”

“No business plan survives its first contact with customers.”

“He looks at my hand. “So it’s you and a syringe against the Capitol? See, this is why no one lets you make the plans.””

“It's like you have a plan and someone comes along and makes you want to change it all, but you still like your first plan, no matter how fantastic the second one makes you feel.”

“.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.”

“All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.”

“In a letter Hajjaj instructed Muhammad bin Qasim on how to deal with the adversary. “The way of granting pardon prescribed by law is that when you encounter the unbelievers, strike off their heads… make a great slaughter among them… (Those that survive) bind them in bonds… grant pardon to no one of the enemy and spare none of them” etc., etc.”