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

Humans aren't rational -- they rationalize. And I don't just mean "some of them" or "other people". I'm talking about everyone. We have a "logic engine" in our brains, but for the most part, it's not the one in the driver's seat -- instead it operates after the fact, generating rationalizations and excuses for our behavior. -- Paul Buchheit

Good ideas are out there for anyone with the wit and the will to find them. -- Malcolm Gladwell, Who says big ideas are rare?

Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. -- Dr. Koichi Kawana

Hire people smarter than you. Work with people smarter than you. Listen to them. Let them lead you. Take the blame for all failures, give away the credit for all successes. -- How to fail: 25 secrets learned through failure

And if you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don't know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don't actually mean anything at all. -- Joel Spolsky

If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing. ~Martha Stewart