The essence of investment management is the management of risks, not the management of returns.
The best way to be happy is to be yourself.
To write is to explore the boundaries of the self.
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The theory of probabilities is at bottom nothing but common sense reduced to calculus.