Kamatovic Quotes & Sayings

Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States. — Michael Mandelbaum

If it were possible to swap lives... the whole world would already have become an electric storm of flitting souls. — Sam Meekings

My name is Raven Stirling!" I shout. "And I am stronger than you! — Amy Ewing

The only way government bureaucrats know of keeping prosperity going is to inflate some more - to increase the deficit or to pump more money into the system. — Henry Hazlitt

Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart-
breaking — Alice Notley

The proof of humanity is that sometimes, we all make mistakes. — Nkem Paul

We can't control what thoughts and emotions arise within us, nor can we control the universal truth that everything changes. But we can learn to step back and rest in the awareness of what's happening. That awareness can be our refuge. — Sharon Salzberg

When one is engaged in a desperate defense of one's world and its values, nothing can be given away, any breach in the walls might be fatal, every point must be defended to the death. — Isaiah Berlin

My parents didn't exercise, so it was not something I saw was good for you or fun. I wish I had grown up knowing to do that. — Christina Hendricks

The Butcher's Shop

The pigs are strung in rows, open-mouthed,
dignified in martyrs' deaths. They hang
stiff as Sunday manners, their porky heads
voting Tory all their lives, their blue rosettes
discarded now. The butcher smiles a meaty smile,
white apron stained with who knows what,
fingers fat as sausages. Smug, woolly cattle
and snowy sheep prance on tiles, grazing
on eternity, cute illustrations in a children's book.
What does the sheep say now?
Tacky sawdust clogs your shoes.
Little plastic hedges divide the trays of meat, playing farms.
playing farms. All the way home
your cold and soggy paper parcel bleeds. — Angela Topping

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