"We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m."

“Them bats is smart. They use radar!”

“There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft”

“Once you have learned to ask questions - relevant and appropriate and substantial questions - you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know.”

Source : Neil Postman (2009). “Teaching As a Subversive Activity: A No-Holds-Barred Assault on Outdated Teaching Methods-with Dramatic and Practical Proposals on How Education Can Be Made Relevant to Today's World”, p.38, Delta

“The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.”

“Being single is only sad if you have a problem with your own company. I'm content with mine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The way I understand the rules on trading on inside information, it's very vague.”

Source : "To Catch a Trader". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. January 7, 2014.

“The simple index fund solution has been adopted as a cornerstone of investment strategy for many of the nation's pension plans operated by our giant corporations and state and local governments. Indexing is also the predominant strategy for the largest of them all, the retirement plan for federal government employees, the Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). The plan has been a remarkable success, and now holds some $173 billion of assets for the benefit of our public servants and members of armed services.”

“... the only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder...”