Fortitude. Without it you will not reach the top.

Complacency is a fool’s weakness, diligence is a warrior’s strength.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Never trade your critical thinking for convenience. That’s always a loosing trade .

You must not stop. Don’t stop.

“What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.”

― Thomas Paine, The American Crisis

If they wanted a kowtow, they got my fist.

Freedom to transact is Freedom. Anything else is theft.

I met Ed on Everest while attempting a summit. His advice is solid.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

Ed Viesturs,

Death smiles at us all; all we can do is smile back.

Marcus Aurelius

“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You can not withstand the storm.’

The warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.'”

Jake Remington

I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust.

Geronimo

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Martin Luther 1483-1546

The computer can be used as a tool to liberate and protect people, rather than to control them.

Hal Finney

“I’m sure that in 20 years there will either be very large transaction volume or no volume.”

— Satoshi Nakamoto