Borromean Ring

This design of three interlinked circles is known as the Borromean Rings. The three rings taken together are inseparable, but remove any one ring and the other two fall apart. Because of this property, they have been used in many fields as a symbol of strength in unity. More on Borromean Rings.

I use the Borromean Ring as a symbol for the type of alignment of activities necessary to create, provision, and apply cyberinfrastructure to enhance the activities of knowledge communities.  It can be proven than Borromean Rings cannot be circles -- you need to be at least a little eccentric to participate in such partnerships....

Success with achieving a Borromean ring partnership often requires the various parties to humble themselves to the collective opportunity and perhaps to keep the following admonition in mind.... appropriately it would seem credited to numerous famous (semi-famous) people (taken from) ...

You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
                      Ronald Reagan

There is no end to what you can accomplish if (or when) you don't care who gets the credit. 
                      Florence Luscomb

There is no limit to the good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
               General George C. Marshall

There's no limit to what a man can achieve, if he doesn't care who gets the credit.
                        Laing Burns, Jr.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
                       Harry S. Truman

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
                       John Wooden