Desiluciones Quotes & Sayings

The announcement of your dreams and goals will reveal the inside out of the people you know, the people you trust and the people you love. And it will give you the shock of your life to see the different reactions. — Euginia Herlihy

The free access to information is not a privilege, but a necessity for any free society. One of my favorite things to do as a young man was wander through the stacks of my hometown library. I'd just browse until I found something interesting. Libraries have definitely changed my life. — Ed Asner

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can. — Og Mandino

I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you think that perhaps could become your sound, too. I did that with Hemingway, and I thought I was writing just like Hemingway. Then all of a sudden it occurred to me - he didn't have a sense of humor. I don't know anything he's written that's funny. — Elmore Leonard

Engineering is not a science. Science studies particular events to find general laws. Engineering design makes use of the laws to solve particular practical problems. In this it is more closely related to art or craft. — Ove Arup

I'm a Tennessean at heart, and a New Yorker in spirit. — Rachel Boston

I'm a reader of milblogs, but as with all blogs, the wheat/chaff ratio makes it a poor investment of time. — Garry Trudeau

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". — A.A. Milne

I am catastrophically in love with you. — Cassandra Clare

Eating is my main hobby now, and most of what I do on the weekend revolves around that. — Daniel Bruhl

When your through changing, your through! — John C. Maxwell

Reflections on Careers in Quantitative Finance

Carnegie Mellon's Steve Shreve is out with an interesting post on careers in quantitative finance, with his commentary on the changing landscape in quantitative research and the implications for financial education. — Paul Ellis