Quotes About Exploration

The least I owe these mountains is a body. - Randy Morgenson

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view… where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you… beyond the next turning of the canyon walls. —Edward Abbey, "Benediction

In the wilderness, life is reduced to its essentials: food, shelter, water. A person can lose himself here, both figuratively and literally. With very little effort, one can escape almost everything and everyone associated with civilization.

And so the moral of his fabled travels read like Santiago's, the boy in Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist: Randy had traveled around the world in search of treasure and came home to find it in his own backyard. He

La verdad es que la oportunidad se presenta constantemente. Es como que si vivieras en un país donde en cualquier sitio donde buscaras petróleo hayaras un pozo.

Dos caminos se dividían en un bosque y yo tomé el menos transitado, y eso estableció una gran diferencia.

Delaney turned me on to so many things. He played me the music of J. J. Cale, which was to become an enormous influence.

Knowledge crunching is an exploration, and you can't know where you will end up.

We haven't done much writing code, but we are reading and understanding code, and that can be just as good. So

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

We need to be brave enough to dissect a frog now and then, to see what's inside.

You cannot be sure you really understand any part of any business problem unless you go and see for yourself firsthand. It is unacceptable to take anything for granted or to rely on the reports of others.

if you are asking, you're not there yet.

startup is a human institution designed to create a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

definition of a startup: a human institution designed to create new products and services under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

We have the capacity to build almost anything we can imagine. The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This

We must avoid the caricature that science means formula or a lack of humanity in work. In fact, science is one of humanity's most creative pursuits. I believe that applying it to entrepreneurship will unlock a vast storehouse of human potential.

My wife and I have so much fun when we travel and find anything... like stray cats and squirrels.

Creative brains are a valuable, limited resource. They shouldn't be wasted on re-inventing the wheel when there are so many fascinating new problems waiting out there.

Clarity is, indeed, all the more necessary when one essays to lead the reader farther from the beaten path and into wilder territory- Joseph Liouville

The public interest has shifted from the nature of man to the nature of nature and to the prospects of domination its exploration opened; and the loss of interest even turned to hatred when the nature of man proved to be resistant to the changes dreamed up by intellectuals who want to add the lordship of society and history to the mastery of nature.