On Pacifism: "War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." Jimmy Carter (1924 - )

“Surfing wasn't about money back then. Surfers always lived cheaply and scraped by.”
- Mark Cunningham

“It's all about where your mind's at.” - Kelly Slater

"Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest."

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." - Mark Twain

"Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein

"And since it has become fashionable to be as greedy as possible, the pop out guys are back, trying to take over the world again with their mass-merchandising schemes. It sort of bugs me that they don't even touch the boards during production and yet they try to portray themselves as real grass roots.
 
There are so many better ways to make big money if that is all they care about. If they don't like working on boards or are incapable of doing so, then they shouldn't do it and instead should become money grabbers in some other context. But to hold themselves out as surfers and to be promoting this crass mass market stuff as if they are doing surfing a favor, they add to the feeling I have about the dilution of the real spirit of surfing." - Tom Parrish (North Shore shaping legend for Lightning Bolt Surfboards in the 70's) about pop-outs and mass produced surfboards.