A patent is merely the ticket to the license negotiation. — Stephen Walli

http://stephesblog.blogs.com/my_weblog/2005/02/a_patent_is_mer.html

The biggest problem is going to be rewritting the budget, having to figure out what to do with all that money that's no longer going to M$. How about raises for those that made the switch? You know, the ones that did the instals, network config, migration.... and a big attaboy for the "suits" that made the decision. — Boyce Williams

(http://garage.docsearls.com/node/550#comment)

Don't think like a cost center, you'll get cut. Think like an entrepreneur. — Anonymous

(http://garage.docsearls.com/node/550#comment)

You're right not because others agree with you, but because your facts are right. - Warren Buffet

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune75

Respect people for who they are, not for what their titles are. - Herb Kelleher

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fortune75

[Following are all from Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly]

From astronomy to computing, networks of amateurs are displacing the pros and spawning some of the greatest innovations. - Charles Leadbeater

Really powerful things happen when the demand side supplies itself - Doc Searls

The gap between the customer [0] (the alpha geek) and the customer [n] ("prosumer") is narrowing. - Rael Dornfest

Hack your system: It's a Good Thing. - Peggy Rogers/Ms. Computer, The Miami Herald

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw