What did John Allen Paulos mean by: In the stock market… You can be right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons. - John Allen Paulos Mathematician Copy
+ Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Allen Paulos, Literature, Math, Teaching, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
+ Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, John Allen Paulos, Defined, Enough, Mathematics, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
+ The Internet is the world’s largest library. It’s just that all the books are on the floor. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Allen Paulos, Book, Library, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
+ Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, John Allen Paulos, Data, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
+ One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Allen Paulos, Fantasy, Giving Up, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
+ So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers. Feraz Zeid, January 11, 2024January 11, 2024, John Allen Paulos, 0 - John Allen Paulos Mathematician
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
