My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didn’t dance.
It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs.
There is no other proposition in economics that has more solid empirical evidence supporting it than the Efficient Market Hypothesis. . . In the literature of finance, accounting, and the economics of uncertainty, the EMH is accepted as a fact of life.
Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.
I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in the public interest. There are all sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.
In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.
It's true that laptop performances can be boring for the audience. The problem is, the organizers of events are still putting us on the classic "rock stage," instead of trying to find new ways to present the music.