It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. -- Rear Admiral Dr. Grace Hopper

It's no trick for talented people to be interesting, but it's a gift to be interested. We want an organization filled with interested people. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

A no uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a yes merely uttered to please or what is worse, to avoid trouble. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Show, don't tell. -- unknown

Seize any opportunity, or anything that looks like opportunity. They are rare, much rarer than you think... -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb, "The Black Swan".

The acts of the mind, wherein it exerts its power over simple ideas, are chiefly these three: 1. Combining several simple ideas into one compound one, and thus all complex ideas are made. 2. The second is bringing two ideas, whether simple or complex, together, and setting them by one another so as to take a view of them at once, without uniting them into one, by which it gets all its ideas of relations. 3. The third is separating them from all other ideas that accompany them in their real existence: this is called abstraction, and thus all its general ideas are made. -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place. ~Guy Kawasaki

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient. ~Gurbaksh Chahal

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama