Quotes About Speculation

Computer Science: A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.

Ma foi," said Danglars, "it would not be a bad speculation

that last word of human philosophy, "Perhaps!

sometimes wonder if all the faith and all the fancy, all the fear, the speculation, all the wild imaginings that go into the study of heaven and hell, don't shortchange, after all, that other, earlier uncertainty: the darkness before the slow coming to awareness of the first light.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Observatory n, A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.

Maybe's a game with no winners.

There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.

Then Glenn Beck burned to death on his Internet program, right in front of his chalkboard, burned so hot his glasses fused to his face, and after that most of the news was less about who did it and more about how not to catch it.

Choosing individual stocks without any idea of what you're looking for is like running through a dynamite factory with a burning match. You may live, but you're still an idiot.

Stock prices move around wildly over very short periods of time. This does not mean that the values of the underlying companies have changed very much during that same period. In effect, the stock market acts very much like a crazy guy named Mr. Market.

I struggle with deciding when to answer or ignore the constant speculation about my private life, because I feel like that doesn't belong to anybody but me.

I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe.

Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

What if In another universe, A split reality,

In his book, Jüdisches Erwerbsleben, Georg Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI's great uncle, wrote: "Jewish commerce can be characterized by two manifestations: 1) it is based on the exploitation of the work of others without any productive activity of its own and 2) it is characterized by gambling and speculation on the differential in values as the way to achieve riches.

I am hoping that real aliens are vegetarian only.

Era curiosa la forma como había adoptado el dolor que sentía. Había tenido tanto tiempo para prepararme para esa noticia, que más se me iba el alma en comparar lo que sentía con mis especulaciones previas que sentir ese dolor liso y llano de haber perdido a mi amigo.

Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?