"The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since."

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Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.102, Macmillan

William Poundstone

#Law Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Misunderstood Quotes

“She knew she shouldn't want him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't help herself. Gazing at him feeling his touch - the rest of the world faded into the background”
“The future belongs to us. I think that art is a force that can change the world.”
“I feel a terrifically painful disturbance in the natural law of things between men and women that must be balanced in the next few thousand years. What has been done in the name of holding up masculine energy as God and feminine energy as subservient has really wiped out everything.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work.”
“When you go through a loss, a disappointment or a bad break up, don't expect to come out the same. Expect to come out better off than you were before.”
“All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.”

Source : Linda S. Ferber, Asher Brown Durand (2007). “Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape”, D Giles Ltd
“The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair.”
“I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.”

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