Quotes About Speculation

In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

It's easy to forget what intelligence consists of: luck and speculation. Here and there a windfall, here and there a scoop.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.

Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.

DMS is energetic and enterprising to a degree that from time to time leaves certain persons (e.g. those burdened with a petty fear of death or torture) uneasy (see my prior speculation as to possibility DMS may have been born with a redundant Y chromosome).

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

Persons of quality had devoted yester evening and much of the night to liquidating their holdings in the South Sea Company and gathering in clubs and coffeehouses to misinform one another.

Neal Stephenson

Crazytown was repelled by facts and knowledge, as oil fled from water, but was fascinated by the absence of hard facts, since it provided vacant space in which to construct elaborate edifices of speculation

Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson

There is a saying, 'Turtles all the way down,' which I would not expect you to understand, but the point of it is that to speculate along these lines is idle

Empty boxes, old newspapers, a milk jug, and a wine bottle." "You're identifying the contents of the garbage bag?" "No dead cats. Or live ones." "Maybe it's a Schrödinger's Hefty bag." I

It's just… a possibility, like it's a possibility that I could turn to dust in the next instant and be disseminated throughout the universe as an omniscient consciousness. It's not a very likely possibility.

where data are sparse, competing ideas abound that are clever and wishful.

Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

But what if the universe was always there, in a state or condition we have yet to identify—a multiverse, for instance, that continually births universes? Or what if the universe just popped into existence from nothing? Or what if everything we know and love were just a computer simulation rendered for entertainment by a superintelligent alien species?

From the summer of 1719 investors who wished to acquire the 'daughters' and 'granddaughters' were generously assisted by the Banque Royale, which allowed shareholders to borrow money, using their shares as collateral; money they could then invest in more shares.

So even if there was a mutation in Loch Ness I still don't think you're going to see a 30ft eel.

It's naive to think we're the only living beings in this universe.

I've been gambling since the age of 12. Horses, dogs, dice, roulette, you name it.