"Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things." — Dee Hock
"A lack of creativity always looks like some other problem." — Scott Adams
"Trust is not negotiable. One either trusts or one does not. I prefer trust." — Dee Hock
"Unless the bad of your ideas isn't getting regularly replaced by the good of someone else's, you won't know it, but it will suck." — Nate Vander Wilt
"Shortcuts are inherently valueless and chasing them is a waste of precious time. Instead, invest steadily in the things that matter most." — Henrik Joreteg
"What if the only things with sides were coins and courtrooms? Everything else had only aspects. Would we need sides at all?" — Nate Vander Wilt
"Over the years, I've learned the best way to make sure your experience doesn't go to waste is to invest it in the people around you." — Julie Ann Horvath
"If you want to make the world a better place, you have to teach people they are valuable. When people value themselves, everything changes." — Jenn Turner
"If you automate garbage, you get fast garbage." — Bear's dad
"If you think you can't, why think?" — Dee Hock
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure." — Marianne Williamson
"You are more likely to achieve your outcome if you don’t feel that your ultimate happiness and success depend on it.” — Shirzad Chamine
“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea” — Pablo Picasso
"Where does the compulsion to control come from? Let’s pretend that I can take my desire for control and develop it to the ultimate. What would that mean? I’d have to know every event that ever happened in the past and everything that could possibly happen in the future. I would have to go, along with desire, hope, love, and hate. If I [were to] reach that state of total and complete control, what would it be like? I’d be dead! Life is mystery. And uncertainty. To wish absolute control is to wish you were not alive. At bottom, desire for control is a death wish." — Dee Hock
"Be kind—everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." — Ian Maclaren (paraphrased)
"Treat a person as they are, we make them worse. But treat them as they could be and we make them capable of becoming what they should be." — Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When we listen—really listen—we reveal respect, support, understanding, empathy. All things that often cannot be expressed with words alone." — Stephanie Maier
"Never apologize for who you are or how you feel, always always apologize for what you do." — Gar
"Only those who are willing to take the risk of writing code that’s not perfect ever write code." — Gar
"No one will ever be a better version of you. Not ever in this lifetime. So be more of who you are." — Stephanie Maier
"Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It’s only as good as the skill of its user, and it’s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special—something more than you can do for yourself—you can’t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that’s free to not be what you had in mind." — Thomas Covenant (in Stephen R Donaldson's The One Tree)