Diaconis Magic Math Quotes

#1. I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left.

Ronald Reagan

#2. Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. Once you are above the level of 25; once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.

Warren Buffett

#3. I believe there's a common ground in what all gifted writers write. It has to do with their wish to turn darkness into light.

Mandy Patinkin

#4. The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.

D.A. Wallach

#5. My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

Janet Jackson

#6. The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light.

Rumi

#7. Money lost
little lost. Honour lost
much lost. Pluck lost
all lost.

E.W. Hornung