"Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient."

-- Ha-Joon Chang

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“Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.”
“I think my philosophy has evolved over the years. I started teaching almost 15 years ago and I've learned that how one student learns is obviously much different than how another student learns and so I've had to figure out how to get through to people honestly without hurting their feelings - which is no easy task just in the scope of being a human being, much less in the classroom, but which is something that is more important to me now than it was when I was 30 - and to show them a path to improving.”
“Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.”
“I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.”
“There are very few theorems in advanced analysis which have been demonstrated in a logically tenable manner. Everywhere one finds this miserable way of concluding from the special to the general and it is extremely peculiar that such a procedure has led to so few of the so-called paradoxes.”

Source : Letter to Professor Christoffer Hansteen (1826) "Oeuvres Complètes de N. H. Abel", mathematician, Nouvelle edition (1881) ed., Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow & Sophus Lie, Vol. 2, pp. 263-265, as quoted by Øystein Ore, "Niels Henrik Abel: Mathematician Extraordinary", p. 113, 1957.
“The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Playing the game I have learned the meaning of humility. It has given me an understanding of futility of the human effort.”
“I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.”

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