C. S. Lewis Quotes

I'm never in one place. I also have to be careful at public events.

In our work, we are always between Scylla and Charybdis; we may fail to abstract enough, and miss important physics, or we may abstract too much and end up with fictitious objects in our models turning into real monsters that devour us.

A good investor in this new world knows to always expect the unexpected.

It's when you've found out how to do certain things, that it's time to stop doing them, because what's missing is that you're not including the risk.

I think the lion, besides the elephant, was the one animal that I just started thinking about so much.

I agree with a lot of the points in Taleb's book, but I don't agree with many of his conclusions. It seems to me that he rightly points out that risk managers miss a lot of the risks, but the conclusion is that he draws, is that we should abandon risk management, whereas my conclusion is we should improve it.

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

One never knows what life may have in store for us, and it's always good to know where the emergency exit is.

Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours.

Amid attempts to protect elephants from ivory poachers and dolphins from tuna nets, the rights of children go remarkably unremarked.

I was pretty shocked to learn that as many as 30,000 elephants are being killed every year to fuel the ivory trade, despite an international ban since 1989, and that 60% of forest elephants have already been wiped out. At this rate, experts say populations will become extinct in the next decade. No one needs ivory.

When we aren't alert, we miss opportunities to improve ourselves. We should always watch for circumstances or situations that can help or harm us and be eager to learn from these encounters.

The less there is of fear, the less there is of danger.

I believe - deeply and profoundly - that speculation is a loser's game.

I have no use whatsoever for projections or forecasts. They create an illusion of apparent precision. The more meticulous they are, the more concerned you should be. We never look at projections, but we care very much about, and look very deeply at, track records. If a company has a lousy track record, but a very bright future, we will miss the opportunity.

I have hired a bodyguard, on the recommendation of my friends and the government. It's outrageous, having to live like this.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.

If I have a love-hate relationship with Martinsville, then we're missing the love part of the equation.

Never throw caution to the wind. It could whip back into your eyes and blind you.

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

If you're invested in security and certainty, you are on the wrong planet.