Quotes About Speculation

The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

Consider the brutal mathematics of financial loss: if you lose 50 percent on an ill-considered bet, you'll need a 100 percent gain just to get back to where you started.

some have speculated that Moses was influenced by Atenism, or was perhaps even a believer. Thus, in the middle of the second millennium, the Egypt/Sinai area saw the advent of Western monotheism

If you still crave financial thrills or feel compelled to have exciting investments to talk about with folk at parties, then designate a very small corner of your portfolio as mad money, to be deployed in 'exciting' investments. Just make sure to promise yourself that when it's gone, it's gone.

Had the eighty-four-year-old wandering miller not made his unexpected reappearance to recognize the paternity of his thirty-nine-year-old-son nearly thirty years after the death of the mother, Adolf Hitler would have been born Adolf Schicklgruber. There may not be much or anything in the name, but I have heard Germans speculate whether Hitler could have become the master of Germany had he been known to the world as Schicklgruber.

Multiverse Some cosmologists speculate that our observable universe is just an expanding bubble in a much wider sea of energy, which is also expanding. Since this wider universe contains many other bubbles in addition to ours, it is often called a multiverse. The Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem also applies to the multiverse as a whole, not just to the individual bubbles within it. Thus, even if there is a multiverse, it cannot be eternal in the past but must have had a beginning.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

Of course, the most common pitch for Bitcoin is much simpler: you might get rich for free. People will say and do any ridiculous thing if they might get rich for free. The one really consistent ideology in Bitcoin is: "number go up.

This despite the fact that Confucian orthodoxy was overtly hostile to merchants and even the profit motive itself. Commercial profit was seen as legitimate only as compensation for the labor that merchants expended in transporting goods from one place to another, but never as fruits of speculation. What this meant in practice was that they were pro-market but anti-capitalist.

I often wonder what kind of a man he would have become. But I think I got a glimpse of that.

There is no God', the wicked saith, 'And truly it's a blessing, For what he might have done with us It's better only guessing.

You are protected. But if you don't take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.

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

Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision.

An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

Anyone who doesn't think the government killed my father either hasn't given the issue much thought, or is insane.

If Wall Street paid a tax on every "game" they run, we would get enough revenue to run the government on.

I don't think that governments should permit speculation in raw materials, because they're what the economy basically needs.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

There was something superficial in attributing anything so awful as the Great Depression to anything so insubstantial as speculation in common stocks.

A purely psychological explanation is ruled out... the discs show signs of intelligent guidance, by quasi-human pilots.

There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.

Who do you suppose invented computers? Speaking in terms relevant to you, in terms of earth history, let alone other worldly history, the computer, of course, came from Atlantis.