I really wanted to be a fighter pilot, 
but glasses kept me out, so through the back door I found a way of getting airborne! 
Just popping a wing-over!
| I followed my heart and did have a paragliding business 
but, then I met a black hole... |
Post my near-death paragliding accident in Chamonix (17 July 2003, whilst clocking up hours for my instructor rating), I have set my personal goals on successfully launching my business 
and to recover as much physically as I can to climb Mont Blanc. | 
The Target...only 8407m |
The view - she's never out of sight | Then, my dream is to live in the mountains and become a rescue helicopter pilot. I do afterall owe my life to them - the professional rescue services in Chamonix (Michel & Ivan). And of course to the amazing skills of the surgeons at l'Hôpital Cantonal (Dr Faundez & Assal) de Genève (HUG) and my physiotherapists (Philipe & Valerie Jacquemard, & Christophe Kania) who have worked miracles with the rough subject they've been presented with. |
Thanks also to my family and friends who really pulled together and were there for me when I needed them most. In particular, Christina, who saw me through my black hole with super-human strength and spent the first month in hospital at my side 7x24. And to Luke (aka DJ Loki) for continuing to look out for me! | 
Handsome Loki in his 306GTi 6 'fangita magnet' |
| "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" | Samuel Johnson (contentiously) |
| "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" | Confucius |
| "The future isn't what it used to be" | Yogi Berra |
| "The great thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time" | President Abraham Lincoln |
| "Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple" | Pete Seeger |
| "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not too simple" | Albert Einstein |
| "Communism won't work because people like to own stuff" | Frank Zappa |
| "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others" | Winston Churchill |
| "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." | Scott Adams |
| "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come" | Victor Hugo |
| "I may disagree with everything you say, but will defend unto death your right to say it" | Voltaire (and practiced by all Gilbarts!) |
| "It was a typical Gilbart meal, 9 debates and 8 people sat round the table!" | Rick Coleman (relative) |
| "Oh my God, that's not f*&%ing electrical??!!" | Masters student (nameless) helping me turn on the lab's Spectrometer. Last heard, an Accenture Consultant! |
| "Well done is better than well said" | Benjamin Franklin |
| "An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing just because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its philosophy will hold water." | John William Gardner |
| "Tell the truth, there's less to remember" | Unknown |
| "To conceive infinity is to believe in boundaries" | Stuart Moeller (Kiwi friend) |
| "A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing" | Oscar Wilde |
| "There are two ways to be rich: make more - desire less" | Unknown |
| "Experience is something you don't usually get until just after you need it" | Unknown |
| "Carpe diem quam minimum credula a postero" (Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow) | Horace |
| "All we have is today and the possibility of tomorrow" | me! |
| "Love is every possibility" | me! |
| “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly: what is essential is invisible to the eye.” | The fox to the Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
| "Black holes are where God divides by zero" | Unknown |
| e=mc2 - Amen! | Albert Einstein |
