Eyeresh Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards. — Abhishek Ratna

The stock exchanges have converted from "open outcry" where wild traders face each other, yelling and screaming as in a souk, then go drink together. Traders were replaced by computers, for very small visible benefits and massively large risks. While errors made by traders are confined and distributed, those made by computerized systems go wild - in August 2010, a computer error made the entire market crash (the "flash crash"); in August 2012, as this manuscript was heading to the printer, the Knight Capital Group had its computer system go wild and cause $10 million dollars of losses a minute, losing $480 million. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I once read that forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a different past ... but forgiving is not the same as obliterating memory. — Martha Beck

He who don't know what envy can do shall always do what envy can do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Fighting with your fear is not less than an adventure and finding yourself is not less than a treasure hunt — Anamika Paliwal

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that. — Susannah McCorkle

tattooed on Kirsten's arm, "Survival is insufficient," is from Star Trek: Voyager, episode 122, which aired for the first time in September 1999 and was written by Ronald D. Moore. — Emily St. John Mandel