o   “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”  Arthur Schopenhauer

o   “Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”  Walt Whitman

o   “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed.”  William Gibson

o   “A hero is someone who has given his or her life for something bigger than oneself.”  Joseph Campbell

o   “Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.  Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”  Winston Churchill

o   “Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.”  Howard H. Aiken

o   “No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.”  George Bernard Shaw

o   “The more you fight to hold specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them.”  John Seely Brown

o   “All great achievements have small beginnings.”  Peter Senge

o   “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”  Thomas Edison

o   “The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but on significance – and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.”  Oprah Winfrey

o   “Everybody has accepted by now that ‘change is unavoidable.’ But that still implies that change is like ‘death and taxes’: it should be postponed as long as possible, and no change would be vastly preferable. But in a period of upheavals, such as the one we are living in, change is the norm.”  Peter Drucker

o   “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”  Albert Einstein