“We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed. We were a lot freer to make risky decisions. If you can afford to do things that way, it’s just so much better. You’re not thinking about venture capitalists or marketing or sales. Just product and users, all day every day.” IfsThinkingWorldWayTryingKindGoalDecisionRichProductsSourceMarketingStrikesCapitalistUsersModestVentureOpen SourceVenture Capitalists Author:Blake Ross
“Ethical and moral questions and how we answer them may determine whether primal scenes will continue to be a source of joy and comfort to future generations. The decisions are ours and we have to search our minds and souls for the right answers... We must be eternally vigilant, embrace the broad concept of an environmental ethic to survive.” MindMaySoulJoyDecisionAnswersMoralGenerationsSourceComfortFutureSceneEthicsConceptsEmbraceEnvironmentalDetermineBroadsEthicalFuture GenerationPrimalVigilantRight Answers Author:Sigurd F. Olson
“One of the major biases in risky decision making is optimism. Optimism is a source of high-risk thinking.” ThinkingDecisionRiskSourceMajorsOptimismDecision MakingHigh Risk Author:Daniel Kahneman
“This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people.” PeopleKnowsJoyDecisionConsciousnessCreativityAwarenessSourceConnectionsVitalityUnending Author:Gary Zukav
“We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.” ShouldMeanDecisionCasesFiguresSourceOriginalsCreatorDecision MakingLockedTransparentOpen SourceNew Words Author:Mitchell Baker
“Our sense of "open" is that the authority to make decisions about that gets distributed based on merit and understanding and participation and leadership, not solely on employment or a title or a business plan. Technical colleagues will define "open" as "open standards," "interoperable" - you can find it, search it, cut and paste it, view source, mix and match - all those things that we associate with text on the Web, that you can continue to do that with audio and video and whatever's next.” NextUnderstandingDecisionViewsCuttingPlansSourceAuthorityStandardsVideoEmploymentTitlesMeritColleaguesParticipationAssociatesBusiness PlanAudio Author:Mitchell Baker
“The most fundamental decision we all face over the course of our lives is what we will recognize as the ultimate reality, the uncaused source and cause of our existence. Everything else in our worldview depends on that initial decision. The Bible speaks of this foundational choice in terms of who or what we worship. We must all answer the challenge Joshua issued to the Israelites as they were poised to enter the Promised Land: "Choose this day whom you will serve" (Josh. 24:15).” RealityFacesLife IsChoicesCoursesSpeakCausesTermChallengesDecisionAnswersExistenceOur LivesLandSourceDependsWorshipUltimateFundamentalsThis DayInitialsWorldviewJoshPromised LandUltimate Reality Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
“Life is a series of decisions that cuts off infinite possibilities at every turn. Most people look at that as a sad unfortunate fact of life. Successful people see it as a source of tremendous power.” PeopleLooksFactsLife IsTurnsDecisionSuccessfulCuttingPossibilitySourceInfiniteSeriesSuccessful PeopleUnfortunateSuccess In LifeFacts Of LifeInfinite Possibilities Author:Mark Joyner
“With the right information at our fingertips, we can always make better decisions. That is one of the reasons I'm working with Tom's of Maine, in particular. For decades they've provided information about ingredients, their purpose and source.” ReasonPurposeDecisionInformationParticularSourceDecadesIngredientsTomsFingertipsMaine Author:Sophie Heyman Uliano
“I don't know who did the hacking [through president election 2016]. The article is based on a lie that the R.N.C. was hacked. So the entire premise of the article is false. The sources are unnamed. And the report was inconclusive.The point is, though, we need to find out more facts about this situation. Then we can make intelligent decisions later, and you and I can have more intelligent conversation about what to do about it.” KnowsNeedsI CanFactsLyingPresidentDecisionSituationSourceConversationIntelligentElectionReportsArticlesPremisesHackingHackedIntelligent Conversation Author:Reince Priebus
“Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.” PeopleDecisionInformationSourceBenefitsBurdenAvailableOrganizedDecision MakingFormatInformation AgeOrderliness Author:William Pollard