Philosophy

Sunatorism and Sunatorianity

Purpose of Life and Mission Statement

• pursuit of happiness through contribution to Canadian society and civilisation

Core Values and Principles

• individualism and self-reliance
  • integrity and merit principle
  • honesty to admit mistakes
  • financial independence to take out loan/mortgage as last resort
  • take total control of one's life
  • virtues of hard work, thrift, ingenuity
  • detest connections and patronage

• democracy, freedom and liberty
  • justice and fairness
  • commitment to equity
  • equal opportunity
  • bilingualism (English, français)
  • micro-mosaic multiculturalism

• open and free mind for creativity, imagination, ingenuity and originality
  • defy culture, customs, conventions, traditions, myths, heritage, etc.
  • check history to avoid past mistakes
  • fundamental principles rather than conforming to pressure from the others
  • always ask why and why not
  • go agaist human nature (entropy)

• forward-looking long-term vision and constancy of purpose
  • make slow but steady progress to build up instead of 1-shot deals
  • continuity, persistence, perseverance, determination
  • goal-oriented progressive attitude to always look forward
  • mission-oriented

• absolute simplicity and ultimate consistency
  • KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
  • supremacy of rational logic
  • minimalism to minimise everything
  • make controlled exceptions
  • always go to the source/root of the information
  • fix the cause of the problem, not the symptom
  • hybrid system will not survive

• ultimate organisation
  • structure common generic building blocks as reusable components
  • personalise for individual customisation
  • universality to allow no quota of any kind
  • consolidate, integrate, simplify
  • look at the total picture and do global optimisation, not local
  • maintenance-free lifestyle

• treat others with cordiality and mutual respect
  • do not judge others, just judge oneself
  • define one's own success
  • 0-tolerance policy for intolerance

• order and discipline
  • short-term pain for long-term gain
  • pay sooner and enjoy later (delayed pleasure)
  • no instant gratification

• quality over quantity and schedule
  • emphasise the content/substance instead of the look/appearance/image/perception
  • wait and think for a few moments before any action
  • evaluate importance of urgency
  • do continuous improvement and perpetual refinement

• passion for excellence
  • strive for perfection
  • if you always do what everybody else did, you will always get what everybody else got.

Mentors

• Bell, Alexander Graham
• da Vinci, Leonardo
• Clarke, Arthur C.
• Darwin, Charles
• Edison, Thomas Alva
• Einstein, Albert
• Franklin, Benjamin
• Fuller, Buckminster
• Galilei, Galileo
• Gilbreth, Frank Bunker
• Lemelson, Jerome H.
• Pauling, Linus Carl
• Rodenberry, Gene
• Trudeau, Pierre Elliot

Quotes

• Acton, Lord
  • Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• Apple Computer
  • The misfits.
  • The rebels.
  • The troublemakers.
  • The round pegs in the square holes.
  • The ones who see things differently.
  • They're not fond of rules.
  • And they have no respect for the status quo.

  • Think Different.

• Armstrong, Edwin
  • Men substitute words for reality and then fight over words.

• Asija, Pal
  • Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.

  • Success is often one step beyond your quitting point.

• Asper, Izzy
  • Reach for the Stars!

• Astronaut Farmer, The
  • If we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

• Bartels, Frank
  • No only means no if you accept it as such.

  • Success is all a matter of luck... but the harder I work the luckier I get.

• Bell, Alexander Graham
  • An inventor a man who looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world.

• Berle, Milton
  • If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

• Bible (God)
  • Do not judge, and you will not be judged yourself.

  • Where there is no vision the people perish.

• BNR/NT/Nortel
  • Simple Design is Good Design.

  • Simplicity Trumps Complexity.

• Bohr, Niels
  • Don't look behind, look ahead!

• Bonaparte, Napoleon
  • Every battle is won before it's ever fought.

• Burke, Edmund (1791)
  • A state without the means of change is without the means of its conservation.

• Carman, Bliss
  • Tradition is the father of persecutions, the uncle of falsehoods, the brother of ignorance, and the grandsire of a thousand hideous sins against sweetness and light.

• Cassaday, John
  • Shit just happens.

• Charlie
  • A ounce of common sense is worth more than a ton of intelligence.

• Chomsky, Noam
  • I never believe anything anybody else tells me. I always try to form my own opinion.

• Christ, Jesus
  • Judge not, and you shall not be judged.
  • Judge not, that you be not judged.

• Churchill, Winston
  • Never give in, never give in, never, never, never give in.

• Clarke, Arthur C.
  • He never grew up, but he never stopped growing.

  • When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. (Arthur C. Clarke's First Law)

• Confucius
  • Do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself.

• Coolidge, Calvin
  • Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

• Cosway, William C.
  • It is extremely difficult, to make things simple!

  • It is extremely simple, to make things difficult!

• Crichton, Michael
  • Simple design is always the most difficult to achieve.

• Dear Abby
  • Evil is in the eye of the beholder. Don't make something your problem when it's really theirs.

• Dewar, James
  • Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

• Divinsky, Nathan
  • If the crowd is going in one direction fast, go in the other direction slowly.

• Edison, Thomas Alva
  • Genius is 1 % inspiration and 99 % perspiration.

  • I have not failed. I've just found 10 000 ways that won't work.

  • Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

• Einstein, Albert
  • A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them.

  • All human beings, whatever their position in society, are suffering from this deterioration. Unknowingly prisoners of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life... The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of the evil.

  • Any fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.

  • Be stubborn.

  • Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

  • I have no special gift. I am only passionately curious.

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  • In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.

  • It is a miracle that curiousity survives formal education.

  • It takes more intelligence/brilliance to make things really simple than to make them too complex and obtuse.

  • Nature has punished my hatred for authority by making me an authority.

  • Never memorise what you can look up in books.

  • Only those who attempt the Absurd will achieve the Impossible.

  • Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  • The cult of individuals is always, in my view, unjustified... It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them.

  • The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

  • The desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological development, which may become injurious for the individual and the community.

  • The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  • Things should be made as simple as possible, but not too simple.

  • You imagine that I look back on my life's work with calm satisfaction. But from nearby it looks quite different. There is not a single concept of which I am convinced it will stand firm. (on his 70th birthday in a letter to Solvine)

• Emerson, Ralph Waldo
  • To be great is to be misunderstood.

• Fang, Tina
  • It's never too old to learn.

  • Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.

• Farmer, Alain
  • Simple things are often the hardest to materialise. We cannot see the forest because there are too many trees in the way. Simplicity takes a *LOT* of work...

• Feynman, Richard
  • Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty - some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely sure.

  • What do you care what other people think?

• Figliuzzi, Joseph
  • As for simplicity, maybe it takes a simple guy to think in simple terms.

  • I was stunned at the simplicity, and even more by the question: why did it take centuries for such a simple device to come into being?

  • It is elegant in its simplicity!

• Fleischmann's Margarine
  • When you change yourself, you change everything.

• Flickinger, R. Charles
  • Magic is imagination and learning.

• Forbes, Malcolm
  • Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.

• Ford, Henry
  • Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

  • If I'd asked people what they wanted, they would have asked for a better horse.

• Forster, E. M.
  • Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

• French Joke
  • The simpleton didn't know the task was impossible, so he did it.

• Galilei, Galileo
  • In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

• Garland, Judy
  • Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.

• General Electric
  • Simplify work and eliminate unnecessary procedures.

  • Speed, Simplicity and Self-Confidence.

  • Take a total look at how any process in an organisation gets done, and look for a simpler way.

  • Work Out, Best Practices, Process Mapping.

• Gerwing, David
  • Ninety per cent of all new innovations fail.

• Gore, Al
  • I don't pass the puck to where they are - I pass the puck to where they're going to be.

• Gotlieb, Allan
  • A diplomat is someone sent abroad to lie for his country.

• Grandin, Temple
  • Because autistic people think in pictures, they may be particularly good at technology. Without the genes that give rise to autism, the world would be full of charming people who sit around the campfire, chatting gaily and empathising mightily but inventing nothing.

• Gretzky, Wayne
  • You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

• Hadfield, Chris
  • Sky is not the limit, aim for the Universe.

• Hale, Grete
  • Don't run up the white flag when the going gets tough.

  • In your darkest hours, you can't give up.

• Hume, Peter
  • There is tremendous amount of opposition to any kind of change.

• James, William
  • Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

• Johnson, Samuel
  • Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

• Jordan, David Starr
  • Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

• Kamprad, Ingvar (IKEA)
  • Encourage and enthuse, dare to question and have the energy to change and rejuvenate.

• Kamen, Dean
  • I don't know how invention works. In most cases, it's sort of the process of looking at the same thing everybody else looks at and finally seeing something else.

  • If most people think what you're doing is completely normal, it probably is. Why do it? Everybody else is doing that. Do something else.

  • If you're not going to change the world, you know, go to sleep, go hibernate.

  • Life is not about what's done, what's finished. It's not the destination. It's the route. Life is about the journey. It's about where you're going. It's not where you are.

  • Science is about why; Engineering is about why not.

  • Scientists and engineers are the superstars of the future.

• Keller, Helen
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  • Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

• Kennedy, John Fitzerald
  • Impossible is a state of mind.

• Keynes, Randal
  • In the current era when no scientist is taken seriously without an academic or corporate affiliation, it is salutary to remember that an independent researcher (Darwin, Charles), corresponding with a few like-minded friends, could come up with the biggest idea in biology.
  • Annie's Box, 2001

• Kissinger, Henry
  • University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

• Lincoln, Abraham
  • Things come to those who wait, but only what's left by those who act.

• Linkletter, Art
  • As long as I have a contract, I can't die.

  • Success is spending your life doing what you really want to do, then having a passion and enthusiasm for it.

  • The question you should ask is not "how old are you?" but "how are you old?"

• Luty-Craib, Sandra
  • Biggest failure is not trying.

• MacDonald, Larry
  • Only 5% of the people are capable of abstract thinking. Do not expect too much.

• MacDonald's
  • Anything is possible when you have a dream.

• Mandelbrot, Benoit
  • In my case, creativity covered an unusual, I would say even quite unique, range of situations. Not because I am better. I am not. I am different. I see things which they don't see, and I can do things that they can't do.

• Manilow, Barry
  • Don't give up on your dreams.

• Matthews, Terence
  • Persistence is the single most important word pertaining to success.

• McCammon, Roy
  • If you are one in a million, there are 6000 people just like you.

  • Local optimisation almost never yields global optimisation.

• McLuhan, Marshall
  • Innovation, to holders of conventional knowledge, is not novelty but annihilation.

• Mead, Margaret
  • Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed [citizens] can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

• NASA
  • Failure is Not an Option.

• New York Times
  • DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

• Nixon, Richard
  • Always remember. Others may hate you, but the ones that hate you can't win unless you hate them. And then, you destroy yourself!

• Nygard, Roger
  • Who's to say who's normal?

• O'Brien, Larry
  • When you are right, you have to fight.

• O'Dea, Frank
  • Three words express it all: hope, vision, action. Hope is the beginning of vision. But without action, vision is simply a dream.

• O'Leary, Kevin
  • The path to wealth is paved with pain and grief and one closed door after another.

• Olympic runner
  • If I concentrate on the guys beside me too much, I'm going to trip and fall.

• Ottawa Citizen
  • If you believe in something, even if it seems impossible, don't be afraid to try to do it. You may not succeed, but the lessons you will learn from the attempt will steel you for the next challenge and the one after that.

• Pasteur, Louis
  • Chance favours a prepared mind.

• Patton, George S.
  • Never tell people "how" to do things. Tell them "what" to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

• Pauling, Linus Carl
  • The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.

• Pausch, Randy
  • A very small number of things in your life are going to mean anything. Shove the other stuff off the boat.

  • Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment. If things aren't going well, we're going to learn a lot and be able to use it later.

  • Failing to plan is planning to fail.

  • It's much more important to do the right things adequately than doing the wrong things well.

  • Time is all we have. And you may find one day that you have less than you think.

  • Time is more important than money because if you've wasted it, you can never get it back.

• Picard, Jean-Luc
  • You're a culture of one (Mr. Data). Which is no less valid than a culture of one billion.

• Polya, G.
  • Inventor's Paradox: The more ambitious plan may have more chances of success... provided it is not based on a mere pretension but on some vision of the things beyond those immediately present.

• Quik Quips
  • Do you want to speak to the boss or to someone who knows what's going on?

  • ESTABLISHING PRIORITIES
    • URGENT: Get someone else to do it right away.
    • RUSH: Try to look at it before Friday.
    • ASAP: Whenever.

  • 6 PHASES OF A PROJECT
    1. Enthusiasm
    2. Disillusionment
    3. Panic
    4. Search for the Guilty
    5. Punishment of the Innocent
    6. Praise & Honors for the Nonparticipants

• Rand, Ayn
  • An inventor is a man who asks "why?" of the universe and lets nothing stand between the answer and his mind.

• Reagan, Ronald
  • There is no limit to what you can achieve if you don't mind not taking credit.

• Rockefeller, John D.
  • If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted business.

  • Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

• Rodriguez, Luis
  • Believe (in objective, rational and real terms) in your project, don't surrender to anybody's opinion.

• Roosevelt, Eleanor
  • Great minds discuss ideas.
  • Average minds discuss events.
  • Small minds discuss people.

• Roth, John
  • Focus.

  • Simple Design is Good Design.

• Ruth, Babe
  • Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

• Sagan, Carl
  • Arguments from authority carry little weight. In science there are no "authorities", only expert opinion. Do not be intimidated by the experts. Ask questions.

  • Ockham's Razor: When there are several explanations for the same problem, the simpler explanation is usually the correct one.

  • Paradox: one must be open to wierdest idea, but must ruthlessly weed out those who don't work (culture, science, technology?).

• Sara's Father
  • If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

• Schuller, Robert (and/or others)
  • Anything your mind can conceive and believe, you can achieve.

  • Be a goal-oriented, goal-control person.

  • Believe and you can achieve.

  • Desire determines destiny.

  • Determination (sheer desire to succeed) is far more important than intelligence and talent.

  • Don't accept anything just because it's the way it should be.

  • Don't believe anything just because it's written in a book.

  • Don't wait for your ship to come to it, row out to meet it.

  • Everything is principle-based.

  • Goal are simply dreams with deadlines.

  • Great things happen when you believe in yourself.

  • History and the future are to be made, not simply inherited.

  • If you can dream it, you can do it.

  • If you don't stand for anything, you will fall for anything.

  • If you have your house in order and principles in place, people will see it.

  • If you make excuses why you can't succeed in business, you will never succeed because you have the closed the door of opportunity.

  • If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  • Integrity and Excellence.

  • Make yourself irreplaceable.

  • Never give up; Nothing is impossible!

  • Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

  • Only those who dare to take control of their lives ever achieve greatness.

  • People who are open deserve progress, who aren't don't.

  • Potentialise (believe in you), Prioritise (seize the moment), Possibilitise, Patronise.

  • Set goals, and the goals will control your destiny.

  • Steal an idea fromone person, and you're plagiarizing; steal ideas from 100 people, and you have a doctoral thesis.

  • The only way to treat everyone the same is by treating each individual differently.

  • There is no greatness without the passion to be great.

  • Think big or don't get out of bed.

  • When you ASS-U-ME, you make an ASS of U and then of ME!

  • Where there is a change, there is an opportunity.

  • Where there's a will, there's a way!

  • Without dreams, what would this world be?

  • Yesterday is a memory; tomorrow is a vision; today is shit.

  • You are accountable for what you do and no one else is accountable.

  • You can get everything in life you want, if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.

  • You can succeed if you believe in yourself!

  • You don't have to do the way it has been done!

  • You have to believe in yourself!

  • Your Brain is Your Limit!

• Shaw, George Bernard
  • But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"

  • You see things; and you say, "Why?"

  • The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

• Shirley, Anne
  • Tomorrow is another day.

• Sonnenfeldt, Richard W.
  • Big decisions can be made on the basis of small misunderstandings.

• Spiner, Brent
  • I've never met anyone, Star Trek fan or otherwise, who wasn't peculiar. We're all peculiar.

• Star Trek: Enterprise
  • Never stop seeking what seems unobtainable.

• Straus, Josef
  • Expand the boundaries - be the leader.

  • Don't get yourself boxed in; don't take no for answers; always find something beyond where you are and come up with new things.

  • If you're climbing a mountain, go to the top - don't stop in the middle.

• Sturgeon's Maxim
  • 90 percent of *everything* is crap.

• Sunatori, Évelyne
  • What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

• Sunatori, Go Simon
  • A crackpot is a hairline away from the Nobel Prize.

  • Abnormality is the essence of progress.

  • Convenience and laziness are the mother of invention.

  • Direct evolution from Telegraph to E-mail (high level of abstraction) should have been better for civilisation, instead of Telephone and FAX (low level of abstraction).

  • If you cannot define something, it is meaningless.

  • Never follow "If it ain't broke, don't fix it", but follow "If it works, it's obsolete" because "If it can be done, someone will do it"!

  • Quest for absolute simplicity and consistency should be the ultimate goal of human civilisation.

  • True inventors make valuable things out of negligible phenomena. True marketers make things with neglible merits sell phenomenally.

• Thomas, Dave
  • If you look back on a life where you followed your dreams, you'll most likely have no regrets. Remember it's not the things you do in life that you regret. It's the things that you didn't do.

• Teller, Ian
  • To get success, you should just keep failing until you succeed. The only people who really fail are those who don't try.

• Trudeau, Pierre Elliot
  • Against the Current.

  • Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

  • Reason before Passion.

  • Towards a Just Society.

  • With a Bang, Not a Whisper.

• Unknown
  • A lie told often enough often becomes the truth.

  • All I need to know about life I learned from Star Trek.

  • Crisis always means opportunity.

  • Don't follow the herd.

  • Good Things Come to Those Who Wait...

  • If you give a man a fish, you have fed him for today, whereas if you teach a man to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime.

  • Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot.

  • Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.

  • Never underestimate the power of large groups of stupid people.

  • Ne umquam respexeris. (Never look back.)

  • One test is worth 1 000 expert opinions!

  • Success is not a destination - it's a journey.

  • The greatest risk is to take no risk.

  • The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He/She may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he/she simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

  • To the optimist, the glass is half full.
  • To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
  • To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

  • Today, knowlege is not power, knowledge about knowledge is power!

  • Write an idiot-proof program and the world will build a better idiot.

• Walton, Sam
  • Swim upstream.
  • Go the other way.
  • Ignore the conventional wisdom.

  • If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a chance you can find your niche by going in the exact opposite direction.

• Watson, Thomas
  • If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

• Winfrey, Oprah
  • Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.

  • Hold the highest, grandest vision for yourself.

  • I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

  • Whatever you fear most has no power.
  • It is your fear that has the power.

• Wozniak, Steve
  • When you think about it, every time they turned me down, it was fortunate for the world and it was fortunate for myself.

• Xerox
  • Kids are more capable of fresh, less inhibited idea generation without the imposition of traditional boundaries.

• Znaimer, Moses
  • The point of living is simply to get better.

Preferences

• Apple Macintosh over IBM PC, Windoze, Wintel
• IKEA
• Saturn
• Maytag
• Pepsi over Coke
• SONY
• First Virtual, Millicent, ClickBank, PayPal
• Star Trek

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