"I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it."

-- Robert F. Engle

#Book Quotes #Missing Quotes #Risk Quotes

“Another Thing I'm Sick of Hearing: If I started that gay rights group, I must be gay. So if i start an animal rights group, what does that make me? A giraffe?”

Source : James Howe (2012). “Addie on the Inside”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
“That was perfect. It was just the opposite from what I said yesterday.”
“A program that has not been tested does not work.”

Source : Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books
“Art comes after the fact, as a witness to certain things that have happened.”

Source : Interview withMax Blagg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 24, 2008.
“You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.”
“I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.”
“The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.”
“I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.”

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