Quotes from John Robison

every wave is a masterpiece of originality. It will ever be so. Go and see." —Willard Bascomb, Waves and Beaches

Learning to surf is a mixture of respect, timing, balance, boldness, and humility, with bits of pure elation

Mutual encouragement in the indulgence of hazardous thoughts and opinions which flatter our wishes or propensities is a lure which few minds can resist.

These three conditions of human society are expressed by the rough, the split and the polished stone.