We Change For The Good So Long

My Client Loved Risk. Risk, I Had Learned, Was A Commodity In Itself. Risk Could Be Canned And Sold Like Tomatoes.

People Were Paid Lots Of Money To Make Stupid Decisions, People In Big Banks, And When People Are Paid To Be Stupid They'll Be Stupid. The Question Was, Did They Know They Were Being Stupid Or Were They Just Stupid? I Think You Need To Take It On A Case By Case Basis. There Was Some Sinister Activity, But I Think By And By It Was People Being Incentivised To Do The Wrong Thing.

Those Who Know Don't Tell And Those Who Tell Don't Know.

You Want The Book To Be Special, And They Are Not Always Going To Be Special, But At Least You Want That To Be The Ambition. So The Only Way That Happens Is If You Are Not Pressing To Write A Book.

The Sheer Quantity Of Brain Power That Hurled Itself Voluntarily And Quixotically Into The Search For New Baseball Knowledge Was Either Exhilarating Or Depressing, Depending On How You Felt About Baseball. The Same Intellectual Resources Might Have Cured The Common Cold, Or Put A Man On Pluto.