They built it that way so an army couldn't reach them. You'd have to hike down one mountain and then climb up a whole different mountain . And right there, they'd plant things like grain, potatoes, basically, you know, all their food.See, if we had built over there, if we lived there and grew our crops in the same place, since it's all terraced land, an army could just walk
and it starts producing bad, unpleasant noise. What would you do? You would try to figure out the cause and eliminate it. Maybe there is some mountain next to you and you have to avoid it, or you take a hammer and smash the signal.I think the good answer is quite obvious. So, why are we constantly doing this regardless? Well, because everybody else is doing it, because there's a whole
now how do they interact these two paradigms as I just mentioned on the top right there you see the first mountain bike on the bottom right you see the uh commercial version of that thingand what's happened is that the designs made by users as they go down Mount tamopais or wherever
products and increase consumer value in that way so what we have here is manufacturers of mountain bikes they make those but the only reason that a mountain bike is useful is because there are mountain biking techniques these mountain biking techniques are what give value
system is free so for example the bike manufacturer the mountain bike manufacturer he wants mountain biking techniques to be free because the user the biker the consumerthe customer is only spending as much on that system of Bike plus techniques as
There's, I said, a lot of versions of sorrel. Mountain sorrel, meadow sorrel, sorrel from, I don't know, the river.So it's not only resourceful because of the ingredients but it's resourceful in how they use their kitchen.
The gorillas in a zoo are lowland gorillas. Mountain highland gorillas don't do well in captivity.That's why you'll never see them in a zoo.
But, essentially, you can just think of the LEIF that we've taken the mechanics of snowboarding and traded the potential energy that a mountain gives you, mountain slope, and for the electronic mechanical energy of electronic motors.And so really the key secret sauce to our system is this 360 drive that you see here.
I'm not sure what's going on in Los Angeles or in the San Fernando Valley and LA proper, or out here in Mountain View. Mountain View-- Santa Monica.Historically, there have been some very important things going on here, like rand, for example.
And in my personal life, I could have cared less about. Mountain View, smiley face?
Sun-- I don't even-- In Mountain View. Mountain View. Yeah, I spoke about it there.I had a really wonderful conversation that happened-- do you remember-- with the person who ran the food system there-- the chef, I guess it is.
And I so far have not gotten bored of it. Mountain climbing was an example I remember from the book.
of the water salty that means it's available in the wrong form it's also in the wrong place like on top of a mountain or far away on a different continent and it's also available sometimes the wrong time of year in India all the fresh water comes in onemonth during their monsoons but not the other 11 months so we spend energy to get it to the right place our homes in
years ago but I think even more straightforwardly I also spent time at Google not this office but at the Mountain View offices have a great affection for the company it was on avolleyball team this was back in the early 2000s and I was working with a
Would you give us any suggestions on how to find the lessons from adversity without having those catastrophic losses? Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew.
Actually, the reason why we started this company is more deeply connected to Google, and there is a vice president at Google, and that is Mountain I happened to meet this person at a party and told them, "I'm writing a doctoral dissertation like this," and they asked, "If Iwanted to buy it, how could I do that?" I thought, "I can't do that, I'm just sitting in a university research room,"
What are the two most important words in this quote? Mountain road-- he was on acid and he was driving.And his wife was asleep in the seat next to him.
mountain in the center of it, which of course explains why compasses work.
Mountain lions just got back, about 15 years ago, after an 80-year absence.
Mountain View, I think, will come back.
mountain in the contiguous 48 states.
Mountain View is looking like it might get to 75 tomorrow.
mountain before the storm really hit, and we're down now at 14,000 feet.
mountain , and we did a hard first ascent in India with an Indian American women's team.
mountain views uh honey Supply that the chef keeps up on the roof up there but he was excited to be part of this uh
mountain pant with sort of like features that were like you know kind of like those belts that you just kind of cinch
Mountain .” "Uh, which one?" And so, we got up there. And this is what we found when we got up to Slope Mountain . Slope
Mountain is there in the fog and the rain. This is late July. Looking through that fog is the arctic plain.
mountain in El Salvador and he basically prepared the coffee every day until he figured out that two weeks from the day of roasting was
mountain really feel yourself grounded because when we are grounded and when we have um and we really be able to be in
mountain I am b as the
Mountain View, and obviously there's no better place to do that than the City of Chicago.
mountain so they'd walked several hours to school on sunday afternoon stay all week and then walk home on Saturdays and
mountain bike thing with like 18 bottles of water kind of coming off the seat posts. He's very is a compelling
Mountain , Iron Wood, the Irons over there. So we picked up all that land in exchange for it.
Mountain " about symmetry. He has a character who describes a snowflake and says, "I shuddered at its perfect precision, found it deathly, the very marrow of death." I think for many
Mountain . That's where that--that's where those turbines I just showed were, okay? So, tremendous wind energy and it's because of the gap, and Ellensburg is very windy or...
mountain man. No, that is a that is a joke that you made up a few years ago.
mountain so it's dramatically different but you know in climbing we have a statistic I think that kind of points out the difference even greater we have
mountain tops. You can literally go to the extremes, uh, of this planet where there are other experiments that are also, uh, important for physics and cosmology
mountain is above that. In that dry region the astronomers have sort of built a residence where they stay. It's a subterranean. Part of it is underground and
Mountain biking -- we'll do some questions at the end here.
Mountain biking is kind of a similar thing as well.
mountain without i mean we feel it a little bit but not really struggling much at all
Mountain View uh about this and I was I heard that kind of uh Larry pagee whose older brother has been a friend of ours
Makhachkala Gym is a great place, but the mountains are special. - Mountains are mountains . - Mountains are mountains .
- Mountains are mountains . - Mountains are mountains . - Your home village, no matter what, on some sort of deeper level, somehow gives you that, you know, like Americans love to say,
Mountains . That was the victorious idea. So it's not the drugs, actually, that idea to go through the Ardennes Mountains . If you, if you think
mountainous. In fact, you can make the argument that Iran is a fortress.
Mountaineering is such a sport where it tests you both mentally and physically.