- "The higher you go in a company, the less oxygen there is, so supporting intelligent life becomes difficult."
-- Guy Kawasaki
- "School is mostly true/false and multiple choice, but real life is all essay questions."
-- Bob Thaves
- "I don't do favours, I accumulate debts."
-- Italian proverb
- "Yra dviejų rūšių klausimai: protingi ir mano."
-- doc. Valkauskas
- "You were acceptable to the trading desk as long as you were relatively white and male."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker".
- "If you believe in it, go with it, but if it doesn't work, you're fucked."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker".
- "Hedging is for sissies."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker".
- "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
-- John D. Rockefeller
- "I used to have my mind open, but my brain kept falling out."
-- unknown
- "Didelė dalis Lietuvos rinkėjų vis dar negali atskirti šilto lietaus nuo šlapinimosi jiems už apykaklės."
-- Algimantas Šindeikis, "Veido" apžvalgininkas.
- "Choose a job that you like and you will never have to work a day in your life."
-- Confucius
- "Geriau pienas šaldytuve, negu karvė virtuvėje."
-- BNS Terminal reklama.
- "Meilės laukti neverta, jos reikia siekti."
-- Nomeda
- "Lewie would say he thought the market was going up, and buy a hundred million (dollars' worth of) bonds. The market would start to go down. So Lewie would buy two billion more bonds, and of course, the market would then go up. After he had driven the market up, Lewie would turn to me and say, 'See, I told you it was going to go up.'"
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "I guess I'm a weirdo. This is /., I can be weirdo here, right?"
-- QE Dog? on Slashdot
- This guy asks me "Do you know the time?" and I replied "Yes, just not right now."
-- Stephen Wright
- "People who intentionally set their watches ahead so they'll be on time are not only chronically lazy, they're also chronically stupid."
-- Pendersempai on Slashdot
- "Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but only a few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion."
-- Niccolo Machiaveli, The Prince
- "It was widely believed that a small, bald man in a grubby room in Moscow started all rumors to wreak havoc on our Western market-based economy."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "There are, in fact, little bald men who sit in an office in Moscow and start market rumors, not to undermine capitalism but to make their bets come right."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "I was looking at the ten-day moving average last night, and it is a perfect reverse duck tail and pheasant. Let's bet the ranch."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "Actually there was one good reason for using the charts: Everyone else did. If you believed that large sums of money were about to be invested on the basis of a chart, then, as dumb as it made you feel, it made sense to look at that chart; perhaps it would enable you to place your bet first and get in front of the coming wave. Many of our French and English speculators, however, honestly believed the charts contained the secrets of the market. They are aboriginal chartists. They would have used the charts even if no one else did. They communed with their charts as if they were Ouija boards. The charts were speaking to them."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "The law of the bond market is: Caveat emptor. That's Latin for "buyer beware." (The bond markets lapse into Latin after a couple of drinks.)"
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "You are proof that some people are born to be customers."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "Investors do not fear losing money as much as they fear solitude, by which I mean taking risks that others avoid. When they are caught losing money alone, they have no excuse for their mistake, and most investors, like most people, need excuses. They are, strangely enough, happy to stand on the edge of a precipice as long as they are joined by a few thousand others."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "Sometimes I dream I have been downgraded by British Airways from Club class to economy; other times it is even worse."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "God gave you eyes, plagiarize."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- Caveat emptor.
- "There is no such thing as a riskless loan."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "It was sort of like being invited to dinner and finding out you're the dinner."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "It was striking how little control we had of events, particularly in view of how assiduously we cultivated the appearance of being in charge by smoking big cigars and saying fuck all the time."
-- Michael Lewis, "Liar's Poker"
- "One of the things about math that seduced me as a child was the black/whiteness, the clarity and sharpness of the world of mathematical ideas, that is so different from the messy (but wonderful!) world of human emotions and interpersonal complications."
-- Gregory Chaitin, "Meta Math!"
- "Mathematical facts are not isolated, they are woven into a vast spider's web of interconnections. "
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Software is frozen thought."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "You see, learning a radically new programming language is a lot of work. It's like learning a foreign language: you need to pick up the vocabulary, you need to acquire the culture, the foreign world-view, that inevitably comes with a language. Each culture has a different way of looking at the world!"
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion, more interesting than the inventions themselves."
-- Leibniz
- "The theorems are compressed into the axioms."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "The organism is determined by its DNA. The less DNA, the simpler the organism. Pregnancy is decompression of a compressed message."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Jacob Schwartz once surprised a computer science class by calculating the bandwidth of human sexual intercourse, the rate of information transmission achieved in human love-making. I'm too much of a theoretician to care about the exact answer, which anyway depends on details like how you measure the amount of time that's involved, but his class was impressed that the bandwidth that's achieved is quite respectable!"
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Each cell in the body has the same DNA software, the complete genome, but depending on the kind of tissue or the organ that it's in, it runs different portions of this software, while using many basic subroutines that are common to all cells."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "When a couple falls madly in love, what is happening in information-theoretic terms is that they are saying, what nice subroutines the other person has, let's try combining some of her subroutines with some of his subroutines, let's do that right away!"
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "There are lots of arguments against real numbers, it's just that people usually aren't willing to listen to any of them."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "In fact, the work of Edward Fredkin, Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus on reversible cellular automata, has shown that there are discrete toy universes in which no information is ever lost, that is, speaking in medieval terms, the soul is immortal. Of course, this is not a terribly personal kind of immortality; it only means that enough information is always present to be able to reverse time and recover any previous state of the universe."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "No physical quantity has ever been measured with more than, say, 20 digits of precision."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Any attempt by a finite mind to apprehend God is inherently paradoxical."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Is the answer to this question `No'?" looks like a valid yes/no question, but in fact has no answer.
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "The moment that you fix in your mind a notion of randomness, that very mental act invalidates that notion and creates a new more demanding notion of randomness... So fixing randomness in your mind is like trying to stare at something without blinking and without moving your eyes. If you do that, the scene starts to disappear in pieces from your visual field. To see something, you have to keep moving your eyes, changing your focus of attention...
The harder you stare at randomness, the less you see it! It's sort of like trying to see faint objects in a telescope at night, which you do by not staring directly at them, but instead looking aside, where the resolution of the retina is lower and the color sensitivity is lower, but you can see much fainter objects... "
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "Also, this result can be interpreted informally as saying that math is random, or more precisely, contains randomness, namely the bits of omega. What a dramatic conclusion! But a number of serious caveats are in order!
Math isn't random in the sense of being arbitrary, not at all---it most definitely is not the case that 2 + 2 is occasionally equal to 5 instead of 4! But math does contain irreducible information, of which omega is the prime example."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- "No scientific idea has only one name on it; they are the joint production of the best minds in the human race, building on each other's insights over the course of history."
-- Gregory Chaitin, Meta Math!
- Remember how we felt when we learned
that one infinity
could contain another?
-- Robert M. Chute
- "The paradox of the common sense is that it is so uncommon."
-- Lawrence H. Cunningham, "How to Think Like Benjamin Graham And Invest Like Warren Buffet"
- "The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right; I assume they are always wrong."
-- George Soros
- "Patience while holding is not as valuable as research before buying."
-- Lawrence H. Cunningham, "How to Think Like Benjamin Graham And Invest Like Warren Buffet"
- "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria."
-- Sir John Templeton
- "I'm not an animal, I'm a zoo."
-- Tom Robbins
- "There are old traders and there are bold traders, but there are very few old, bold traders."
-- Ed Seykota
- "I like the Japanese philosophy where you ask questions rather than look for answers. The more questions you come up with the better. The answers will happen."
-- Sunny Harris
- "Mandagus robotas, neįkyriai reklamuojantis maudimosi kostiumėlius visgi turi teisę pasisakyti."
- "Business success is mostly about waiting for something lucky to happen and then taking credit."
-- Scott Adams
- "The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
-- Albert Camus
