Ritholtz Blog Quotes & Sayings

You're familiar with the P = NP problem, right?" Yukawa asked from behind him. Ishigami looked around. "You're referring to the question of whether or not it is as easy to determine the accuracy of another person's results as it is to solve the problem yourself - or, failing that, how the difference in difficulty compares. It's one of the questions the Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a prize to solve. — Keigo Higashino

I don't know anyone who can't learn something from The Little Prince. — Veronica Henry

We all like to think of ourselves as a standard, and I can see that it is genuinely difficult for the English middle class to suppose that the working class is not desperately anxious to become just like itself. I am afraid this must be unlearned. — Raymond Williams

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it. — Aldous Huxley

I love you, Vic! Anything else is lies. I really, truly love you. I'll love you until the day I die. — Natalie Ansard

Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious - being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so - still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself. — Andrew Carnegie

There are times when relationships need to be prioritised over what is right. And there are times when the right needs to be prioritised over relationships. — Amit Ahlawat