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"There’s no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We keep making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of coloured glass that have been in use through all the ages."

Mark Twain

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It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

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In a market meltdown, nothing rises except correlations.

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"Нет ТЗ - результат ХЗ." Программистская мудрость.

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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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Читаю книжку Thomas K. Carr "Market-Neutral Trading":

"No one should ever mistake me for a guru! I’m just an ordinary guy with an extraordinary passion for learning, and then teaching to others, what works in the stock market. "

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Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to
have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

—George Eliot

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What’s important is that you have faith in people, that they’re
basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do
wonderful things with them.

—Steve Jobs

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Failures are fingerposts on the road to achievement.

—C. S. Lewis

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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work.

—Thomas Edison

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“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions.
What do you do, sir?”

~ J. M. Keynes (?)

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If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.

— Paul Graham