B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Pattern B Round 1 - 10:45am

  1. Speaker 1


    When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.     --Elon Musk

    I'm trying to think, don't confuse me with facts.                                                                   --Plato
    Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.                             --Alexander Hamilton

  2. Speaker 2


    Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is a disaster.   --Elon Musk

    Only the dead have seen the end of war.                                                                              --Plato                        
    We can’t all be heroes.  Someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.                 --Alexander Hamilton

  3. Speaker 3


    Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.              --Elon Musk
    The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.  --Plato                        

    A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
                                                                                                                                                   
    --Alexander Hamilton

  4. Speaker 4


    Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.      --Elon Musk                

    I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.                --Plato
    I never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man.                                                         --Alexander Hamilton

  5. Speaker 5


    It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket. --Elon Musk

    Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.            --Plato
    Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.                                                                   --Alexander Hamilton

  6. Speaker 6


    There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. --Elon Musk    

    Love is a serious mental disease.                                                                                           --Plato
    We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.                                           --Alexander Hamilton

Pattern B Round 2 - 2pm

  1. Speaker 1


    Books are a uniquely portable magic.                                                                        --Stephen King
    Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.                                                     --Mick Jagger
    Kids, just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I’m not listening.
                                    --Homer, The Simpsons

  2. Speaker 2


    Get busy living or get busy dying.                                                                               --Stephen King
    Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.                                                                --Mick Jagger
    To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.                              
    --Homer, The Simpsons

  3. Speaker 3


    Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.  --Stephen King
    Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.                                                 --Mick Jagger
    Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
                --Homer, The Simpsons

  4. Speaker 4


    The scariest moment is always just before you start.                                                --Stephen King
    Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.                                                                  --Mick Jagger
    It takes two to lie; one to lie, and one to listen.
                                                            --Homer, The Simpsons

  5. Speaker 5


    You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.                          --Stephen King
    Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.                                                               --Mick Jagger
    If anyone asks you something you don't understand, just say protons.
                       --Homer, The Simpsons

  6. Speaker 6


    Go then, there are other worlds than these.                                                             --Stephen King
    The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
                                                                                                                                        --Mick Jagger
    Between your genius and my nothing we make a great team
    .                                 --Homer, The Simpsons