Quotes About Speculation

The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions. Except time flows one way and drags us with it no matter how hard we paddle upstream.

The instant passed so fast, and when that happens, it goes for good and all you have is a slow lifetime to speculate on revisions.

In the mean time, innumerable joint-stock companies started up everywhere. They soon received the name of Bubbles, the most appropriate that imagination could devise.

Some in clandestine companies combine; Erect new stocks to trade beyond the line; With air and empty names beguile the town, And raise new credits first, then cry 'em down; Divide the empty nothing into shares, And set the crowd together by the ears. – Defoe

What could have been Henry Cutter's

As humans, we are really bad at envisioning the counterfactual—what might have happened if different choices had been made.

were a lot of bad actors). Let's start at the bottom: too many people borrowed too much money to buy real estate.

'Black Mirror' was amazing.

Once in a blue moon, an entire industry is a good short.

If a man loses his money through unwise market speculation or by playing the horses, he has been punished in a manner which we may call passive. By this I mean that another person has not taken special, socially overt steps to harm the offender. This phenomenon has not received the attention it deserves.

Maybes. Possibles. Don't knows.

What happened, and what might have happened?

In You're Looking Very Well: The Surprising Nature of Getting Old (Faber, 2010), author Lewis Wolpert states his belief that one day human beings may have a lifespan of six hundred years.

We sat around on a hotel balcony with a bottle of wine and tried to figure out how you would go about blowing up a planet. That's the kind of conversations science fiction writers have when they get together. We don't talk about football or anything like that.

The one sign of the end Jesus gave, however, that falls into the realm of the church's responsibility is that the gospel will be proclaimed to the nations before the Lord returns. If we truly desire the return of our Lord, then our energies should be devoted to missions and evangelism, not to undue speculation and date-setting, striving to discern the identity of the Antichrist, or claiming that specific natural disasters and wars were foretold by Jesus and the apostles.

So who do you suppose Imogene was last time around?" "Oh, that's easy," Haven laughed. "Attila the Hun.

We watch our technologies becoming more intelligent, and speculate imaginatively about their potential to become conscious. All the while, we have it in us to become wise.

We usually speak of probability when we do not have all the data.

Kieffer's Network began to assemble a picture that was as accurate as is possible in an African country where truth must be, at best, approximated from a shifting assemblage of fact, innuendo, rumour, theory and wild speculation.

On account of disastrous losses in Wall Street that morning, I had determined to kill myself. I'm not of much account, any way, and I was desperate. I knew Uncle Robert would give me no money to repay my stock losses, for he always thought speculation no better than any other sort of gambling—and it isn't.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous in speculation, as in politics, to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience.

There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.