“Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.”

“[A] pessimist gets nothing but pleasant surprises, an optimist nothing but unpleasant.”

“You are an endless project… changing, evolving, surprising.”

“An intelligent woman herself, the Duchess had overestimated the Marshal’s intelligence. Not an ambitious woman, she had underestimated his ambition. So are many misread by other’s lights.”

“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”

“Reincarnation and projection, you see, are one and the same thing... When you are attached to the physical organism your projections are not as complete -- the difference between a reincarnational instance and a simple projection from the physical state.”

“No one has ever gone broke underestimating the insecurities of the gay and lesbian consumer.”

“One school is finished, and the time has come for another to begin.”

“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

“Project management is the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of company resources for a relatively short-term objective that has been established to complete specific goals and objectives. Furthermore, project management utilises the systems approach to management by having functional personnel (the vertical hierarchy) assigned to a specific project”