Once You Educate Yourself, You're Left With

Mastery... Is To Work Toward Simplicity; Replace Complex Technology With Knowledge, Hard Work, And Skill.

Hire Extremely Independent, Intelligent, And Passionate People, Not Necessarily "experts." Maybe Three Or Four Of My Employees Have Mbas, And Those Guys Aren't Necessarily At The Top Of The Food Chain.

The Whole Purpose Of Climbing Something Like Everest Is To Effect Some Sort Of Spiritual And Physical Gain. But If You Compromise The Process You’re An Asshole When You Start Out And An Asshole When You Get Back.

We Choose To Believe That The Granite Is Alive. If Life Is Movement, Then Rock - With Its Atoms Flying Around Like Stars In Cosmos - Is Alive.

Surfing And Climbing Are Both Useless Sports. You Get To Be Conquistadors Of The Useless. You Climb To The Summit And There Is Nothing There. And You Could Hike To The Top From Another Direction. How You Get There Is The Important Part. It's The Same With Surfing.