The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists.
市场是一个永远在不可持续的乐观(使股票过于昂贵)和不合理的悲观(使股票过于便宜)之间摇摆的钟摆。聪明的投资者是现实主义者,他们向乐观主义者出售并从悲观主义者那里购买。
音乐是灵魂隐藏的算术练习,它不知道自己正在与数字打交道。
To supply an explicit moral tag to an evolving and compulsive dramatic image seems to me facile, impertinent and dishonest.
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'
The best art comes from the struggle between control and chaos.
数学中的每个问题都是一个等待解决的谜题,而乐趣就在于解决的过程。
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that... no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.