The rest seemed to happen by chance. In the end, however, I think they had mutual respect for each other. When you hold yourself and others to such a high standard, it can drive you to drastic means to achieve it.

“Most people don’t take everything they learn, and think ‘Why,’ ‘How?’ Learning how to think like this is like discovering halfway through your life as a flightless bird that you have wings and can fly. And once you discover it, there is no going back. It’s addictive and powerful. It ruins your ability to be a worker bee, because you’ve tasted blood: you become a killer bee, intent on understanding why things are the way they are, finding their flaws, and pushing the universe forward by fixing them.”

~Dustin Curtis