Quotes About Exploration

I want to be involved in lots of different things. I want to write and direct, and I make music.

Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.

I feel there has to be a certain amount of improvisation as I'm writing, which means any idea or any commitment to a project is risky. It involves time; it involves gathering of material, and sometimes it just doesn't work. Sometimes it does. As I'm starting out on a project, I can't tell if it will click or not.

Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.

For me, climbing has always been about adventure and that involves difficulties, danger and exposure, so I deliberately set out to climb with as little equipment as possible.

I'd like to do something that involves music.

Groundbreaking research involves a high level of risk.

Friends always ask me what the best Indian restaurant in L.A. is. I'm like, 'I don't know, dude. I have an app on my iPhone for that.'

There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple. We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense.

I remember being very free in Ireland.

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

If you set your story in Rome, Ireland or Sheboygan, for that matter, go there. If you're broke, set it in the town where you live, or where you grew up.

I took my Canadian perspective over to Ireland and dug around, and I found a very interesting story and brought it back.

My father told me fairy stories and he read to us. And my grandmother was Irish. She told us about 'the little people.' When I went into the forest I used to look for them.

I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.

We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines.

Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

I believe in always having a lot of irons in the fire.

Animation is my love, but I think there's definitely room in live-action. I mean, 'Iron Man 2' was fun, and I got to see that world.

Curiosity and creating ideas ironically are both democratized; they cost no money, anyone can do them, and it's up the individual and the force of their personality to give life to them.

It always irritated me that people think they have to be locked into a career path.

The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.