In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.
It's stupid the way people extrapolate the past -- and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid.
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome
Our biggest mistakes, were things we didn't do, companies we didn't buy.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you've won.
Move only when you have an advantage. It's very basic. You have to understand the odds and have the discipline to bet only when the odds are in your favor.
'Crowd folly', the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior - like investment management practices of many foundations represented here today. It is sad that today each institutional investor apparently fears most of all that its investment practices will be different from practices of the rest of the crowd.
Ask "why" until there is no more "why. "
Our hearts must not only be broken with sorrow, but be broken from sin, to constitute repentance.
So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!
Sadness is not always the worst feeling. Sometimes it's a really pleasurable thing to be overwhelmed with sadness.