In a boatbuilding journal article on design. "There’s an old saying which I’m told is of scandinavian origin:“Line for duty; Curve for beauty.”
That’s about as simple as it gets.
okay so make a straight board: straight rocker, straight rails, constant thickness. Then surf it a few times and come back and tell us about how it works.
I would note that boats and boards are made for different purposes and used in different ways. Propositions which may perfectly encapsulate the work of one craft can be perfectly unsuited to another.
Where’s that pic of the Caribbean kid screaming across the face of what looks like a perfect, thigh-high thin and crispy sandbottom wave in wonderfully clear blue water, riding what appears to be a door? Was that you?
Buy low, sell high.
“He who hesitates, meditates horizontally.” Ed Parker
Turn the other cheek. Jesus
Walk softly, but carry a big stick. Teddy Roosevelt
Keep your mouth shut and listen.
If they ask you who you voted for tell them, “None of your damn business.” Grandfather
“Be the change you want to see in the world” - Ghandi.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend
Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read." Groucho Marx
“Buy land. They don’t make anymore.” Twain, or my Gramps
“Be the best version of yourself you can be. Everyone else is already taken.” --not sure who said that
“I was born crying. I’ll die laughing” --Nisargadatta
“Kindness is my religion” --current Dali Lama
“That rug really tied the room together, did it not.” --The Big Lubowski
“Leave the gun. Take the cannoli”
its not the size it how you use it that counts
egos are like inflatable mattresses
pull the plug and they deflate easily
wank too much and youll go blind
Watch out where those Huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow !
“Here today. Gone to Maui.”
“Let him that would move the world first move himself.”
~ Socrates
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
~ T. Roosevelt
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
~ Mark Twain
Decide,Delagate,Disappear
If you aren’t the lead dog the scenery never changes.
It’s only the giving that makes you what you are.
“The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
Mark Twain
“What is moral and what is immoral? Nobody will answer the question satisfactorily. Not because morals are constantly changing but because the principle behind it is a fictitious one. Morality is for slaves, for men without spirit.” - Henry Miller
ahem cough cough bullshit cough cough
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.