5 Quotes by Myron Tribus

You can manage what you do not understand; but you cannot lead it.

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

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.

Quality in education is what makes learning a pleasure and a joy.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.