Fischer Black Quotes

#1. My first reaction on being awarded the Nobel Prize was, actually, I thought of Fischer Black, my colleague. He unfortunately had passed away. And there was no doubt in my mind that if he were still alive, he would have been a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize.

Myron Scholes

#2. CAPM pioneer Bill Sharpe remarked, "I have concluded that I may never see an empirical result that will convince me that it disconfirms any theory," which reiterated Fischer Black's (1993) feeling, "I find theory to be far more powerful than data.

Eric G. Falkenstein

#3. The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

Bobby Fischer

#4. The old chess is too limited. Imagine playing cards, black jack for example, and every time the dealer has the same starting hand you have the same starting hand. What's the point?

Bobby Fischer

#5. One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

Fischer Black

#6. Welfare has destroyed the African-American family by telling young black women that husbands and fathers are unnecessary and obsolete. ... We have incentivized fornication rather than marriage, and it's no wonder we are now awash in the disastrous social consequences of people who rut like rabbits.

Bryan Fischer

#7. If you're around someone who makes you feel good, you have to go for it. Don't hold back.

Faith Sullivan

#8. The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

D.H. Lawrence

#9. I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Tom Hollander

#10. In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.

Fischer Black

#11. Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.

Fischer Black

#12. Teach people to play new chess, right away. Why do you offer them a black and white television set, when there is a set in color?

Bobby Fischer

#13. She waited, unwilling to meet his eyes, hoping he would go on. When he didn't, the silence stretched between them like invisible cobwebs. In the dimmest part of her, she realized she might have wishes, too, elusive wishes that belonged more to a girl in a garden than they did to a captive.

Caragh M. O'Brien

#14. The longer we confine ourselves to a place the more it imprisons us.

Sarah Noffke

#15. In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Fischer Black

#16. Ultimately the white man should leave the United States and the black people should go back to Africa.

Bobby Fischer