My name is Aric Goe, friends call me Goemaster. I was born in Portland, OR where I lived until moving to Walla Walla, WA to attend college. After graduating in 2006, I started my career in electrical engineering in Sacramento, CA. I am married to my best friend, the love of my life, Tatiana. Though we look forward to visiting incredible places around the world, we couldn't be happier calling a place on The West Coast our home.
Favorite pastimes include rock climbing, snowboarding, golf, and pool, just to name a few. I gain strength and inspiration from my friends and family, but also from my favorite music, books and quotations.
Essential abilities for intelligence are certainly:
to respond to situations very flexibly;
to take advantage of fortuitous circumstances;
to make sense out of ambiguous or contradictory messages;
to recognize the relative importance of different elements of a situation;
to find similarities between situations despite differences which may separate them;
to draw distinctions between situations despite similarities which may link them;
to synthesize new concepts by taking old concepts and putting them together in new ways;
to come up with ideas which are novel.
Favorite Music Selections:
Favorite Quotes to Live By:
"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer."
-Psalms 19:14
"From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I."
-Psalms 61:2
"More than all that you guard, guard your mind, for it is the source of life.â€
-Proverbs 4:23
“A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.â€
-William Shakespeare
“the little and almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies have very important and lasting consequences."
-John Locke
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Benjamin Franklin
"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life."
-John Muir
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
-Carl Jung
"Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."
-Aldous Huxley
"You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."
-Dale Carnegie
“Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of successâ€
-Albert Einstein
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.â€
-Mark Twain
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
-Robert Heinlein
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
-Carl Sagan
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds."
-Bob Marley
"My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if your causing no harm then your alright with me."
-Ben Harper
"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
-Bilbo Baggins
"Keep it secret. Keep it safe."
-Gandalf
"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
-Dr. Strangelove
"And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."
-Caddyshack
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
-The Usual Suspects
