Inside Out

“I’m learning things. I hope I find out what they are soon.”

Mau, in Terry Pratchett’s Nation

“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.”

Yogi Berra

“You can’t get to wonderful without passing through alright”

Bill Withers

“”It is too constricting to say that you must always think outside the box; whether you are thinking inside or outside the box, you are still letting the box dictate your thoughts, are you not? What you are not acknowledging is the honest fact that ‘the box’ itself is figmentary, illusory. And as long as one continues to act in reaction to this perceived set of dictates, one cannot be truly original in thought.”

Erica Amelia Smith,
An Address as to the Nature of the “Proper” Uses of Technology

“The best climber is the one having the most fun.”

Alex Lowe, The American Alpine Journal

“This is what I love about friendships, especially climbing ones. You never know where they might lead. One day someone’s a stranger, another they hold your life in their hands.”

Andy Kirkpatrick

” A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. ”

Robert Anson Heinlein in Time Enough for Love (1973)