Quotes

Maybe it was okay that I was suddenly so uncertain about everything in my life. Perhaps uncertainty is a good trait, in line with

Until 1800, women gave birth to six children on average. So the population should have increased with each generation. Instead, it stayed more or

Mr. Buffett says Prof. Samuelson believed the same thing he does: that markets are “generally very efficient but not perfectly efficient.” Mr. Buffett adds,

tribute. In time, however, his mannerisms lent themselves to satire (sentences ending with the studied pseudo-British nonchalance of “dontchersee?” or “dontcherknow?”), and his publication

as Mr. Pickwick beautifully observes, it has somehow or other happened, from time immemorial, that many of the best and ablest philosophers, who have

Pumping Iron and Momentum generation. Bodybuilding and surfing both being fringe sports, with small groups of guys who knew each other well and were

In 1900, some eight hundred automobiles were manufactured in the US at an average price of $1,000 (nearly $28,000 today). Tichi, Cecelia. What Would

Central Park had first opened to the public in the winter of 1858, even as park construction continued. Tichi, Cecelia. What Would Mrs. Astor

The opera itself, noted Pulitzer, is nearly incidental. The singers, he wrote, were valued solely by price, for Society “prefers song which is so

American Etiquette put the matter bluntly: “The distinction between the gentleman and the boor is more clearly noted at table than anywhere else.” Tichi,