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  1. “A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  2. Conferences enable face to face conversation among knowledgeable people, fostering serendipity and structure in serious conversations.
  3. "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising." Cyril Connolly
  4. "All the evidence of history suggests that man is indeed a rational animal but with a near infinite capacity for folly." Robert McNamara
  5. "Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few." Robert Heinlein "Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
  6. "A startup takes 100% of your performance, not 100% of your time: optimizing performance means spending time on maintenance." Paul Graham
  7. "Google is not search, It's instant search. Instant search does not let you find stuff faster, it lets you ITERATE faster." Michael Schrage
  8. "Without profit you can't change anything on a sustained basis."
  9. "Condense fact from the vapor of nuance." Neal Stephenson "Snow Crash
  10. "To walk we lean forward, lose our balance, and begin to fall. We trust that we will find new stability with each step." Robin Skynner
  11. "Potential founders look for ideas to implement when they should look for problems to solve. Customers pay for solutions." Martin Zwilling
  12. "I consider some team members glue: they motivate and improve the morale, they bring the team together tighter and tighter." Will Wright
  13. "Instead of deciding the best thing to do with limited information, experimental innovators act to learn what they should do." Peter Sims
  14. "How can I know what I think till I see what I say?" Graham Wallas in "The Art of Thought"
  15. Discussing deal terms principal to principal is so much easier than working through lawyers. I've gotten way more done this way. Fred Wilson
  16. "'Your money or your life.' We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand on us, but not when God does." Mignon McLaughlin
  17. "There are certain things that can be communicated in a moment or two, eyeball to eyeball or palm to palm." Michael Bowen
  18. "What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence." Ludwig Wittgenstein's final proposition in "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus"
  19. "A program is never less than 90% complete, and never more than 95% complete." Terry Baker
  20. "Nothing pleases like doing business with old men. An intelligent, ethical man in old age is the testament of civilization." Michael Bowen