Who we are in the present includes …

“The Toyota style is not to create results by working hard. It is a system that says there is no limit to people’s creativity. People don’t go to Toyota to ‘work’ they go there to ‘think’.” – Taiichi Ohno

“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”  Steve Jobs

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.” – Ayn Rand

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein