Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
-Herbert HooverHeston Addendum:
Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
-Charlton Heston in Planet of the Apes
Pattern recognition and memorization is key…If you do not know the next pattern coming up in a Tron Light Cycle Event…You will lose your life.
-Robert Mruczek in King of Kong
And you know it hurts my feelings, if nothing else, that the Swiss franc is worth more than the dollar.
-Paul Volcker in an intereview this week with Charlie Rose
A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.
-Lester Freamon on The Wire
But here’s my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can’t buy backbone. Don’t let them forget it. Thank you.
-Herman Blume in Rushmore
I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people…There are times when I look at people and I see nothing worth liking. I want to earn enough money that I can get away from everyone…I see the worst in people. I don’t need to look past seeing them to get all I need. I’ve built my hatreds up over the years, little by little, Henry… to have you here gives me a second breath. I can’t keep doing this on my own with these… people.
-Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
Everything in the universe relates to the number 5, one way or another, given enough ingenuity on the part of the interpreter.
-Principia Discordia (ht: Chris)
Economics…has not truly come to grips with the main difficulty, which is the inordinate importance of a few extreme events.
-Benoit Mandelbrot (ht: Jeremy Grantham)
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
-Blaise Pascal
It’s a zero-sum game. If you put trades on that worked so well that you bankrupt your counterparty, you will not collect on those trades.
-Jim Keegan, a senior vice president and portfolio manager at American Century Investments (from Calculated Risk)
Host: why does Ambac still have AAA rating?
Cramer: BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS TOO PAINFUL.
-Jim Cramer in this CNBC video
“Pro forma”. From the latin, meaning “lawyers jerking themselves off.”
-Detective McNulty from The Wire
