Yukihiko Yoshida Quotes & Sayings

The Algo Wars were leaving a path of destruction in their wake. "HFT algos reduce the value of resting orders and increase the value of how fast orders can be placed and cancelled," wrote Nanex researcher Eric Hunsader. "This results in the illusion of liquidity. We can't understand why this is allowed to continue, because at the core, it is pure manipulation. — Scott Patterson

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language. — Frank Herbert

Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil ... — Abraham Lincoln

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. — Robin Jones Gunn

Give me a book," she said. "A book of sermons, anything."
"What do you want a book for?"
"I want words. I've got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose. — Hilary Mantel

In some respects Abbott proved to be the id of Australia's modern conservative movement: hyper-adversarial, willing to occupy itself in opposition to whatever social issues were preoccupying the left. Owing more to American political culture than the British inheritance Abbott claimed to value, contemporary Australian conservatism makes the grave error of believing in things other than power and stability. — Peter Van Onselen

We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails.
We let the stars shine into us. — David Almond

Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes — James Arthur

Found him stabbing his paperback edition with a steak knife, the tip of the blade penetrating the cover and sinking far enough down into the early chapters — Tom Perrotta

Dance until you shatter yourself. — Jalaluddin Rumi

The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law distribution of economic opportunities. Education per se is not going to make up the difference. — Erik Brynjolfsson

The fascinating thing about Game of Thrones is that none of the badasses are just badasses, and none of the wimps are just wimps. A coward will surprise you with courage, and a very powerful person will blindside you with weakness, and the most evil person is capable of the most compassionate moment. — Pedro Pascal

In time, the pain from a phisical beating would recede, heal, and scar, but wounds inflicted to the heart left scars that never stopped hurting — Lorraine Heath

The real poison within families is not the poison that you put in your food, but the poison that grows up in the heart when people are jealous of one another and cannot speak these feelings and drain out the poison that way. — Alexander McCall Smith