One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.

Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way

Surfing is attitude dancing.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

What gods do you pray to?

If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

It's never over till it's really over in your mind...

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my 'Theorem'.

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

Someone asked me the other day what my favourite record shop was, and I said YouTube.

I'm an equestrian, so I like to ride. Ride horses, I love to hike with my dog, love to travel. Most recently I went to Costa Rica, which I loved.

I was kind of a bouncy kid. I used to roller-skate into the sides of cars.

We definitely tend to gravitate toward writing more on the darker side of life, but also incorporate the light at the end of the tunnel; you can see a positive in it.

I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.