Quotes About Allais

#1. All the desks in this room are bolted down, Sutton. Just so you know." Uh, okay.

Sara Shepard

#2. My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.

Maurice Allais

#3. In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers.

Maurice Allais

#4. We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

Maurice Allais

#5. In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly.

Maurice Allais

#6. Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.

Maurice Allais

#7. Too many theorists have a tendency to ignore facts that contradict their convictions.

Maurice Allais

#8. Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.

Alphonse Allais

#9. Everytime you smile, I smile And everytime you shine, I'll shine for you.

Taylor Swift

#10. My motivation was an idea of being able to improve the conditions of life, to try to find a remedy to many of the problems facing the world. That's what led me into economics. I saw it as a way of helping people.

Maurice Allais

#11. I received my high school baccalaureate diploma in Latin and Science in 1928, then my two baccalaureate diplomas in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1929.

Maurice Allais

#12. Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

Andy Borowitz

#13. Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

Maurice Allais

#14. Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline.

Maurice Allais

#15. It would be just as pointless to oppose the international use of English today as it would have been to oppose the worldwide use of French in the 18th century.

Maurice Allais

#16. Wall Street has become a veritable casino.

Maurice Allais

#17. At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand.

Maurice Allais

#18. The most dangerous person ever to deceive is yourself, for in doing so you destroy your basis for honesty. Honesty is the foundation of intelligence, while dishonesty is the foundation of stupidity.

Orest Stocco

#19. Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.

Alphonse Allais

#20. Don't let your tears be seen; it may hurt someone else's happiness.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.

Maurice Allais

#22. The reality is that the institutional framework in which Wall Street operates is fundamentally inappropriate, and it inevitably generates violent fluctuations of the market.

Maurice Allais

#23. It is understandable that the Fed injects cash to avoid the collapse of the stock market, but basically it is bad policy for monetary authorities to intervene to save speculators from bankruptcy. This is not their role.

Maurice Allais

#24. Let me have two locks of your hair, and help my mother plait them into a bow-string for me. "Does anything depend on it asked Hallgerd". "My life depends on it replied Gunnar.

Anonymous

#25. The mindset (perspective) is the consequence of "rules.

Pearl Zhu

#26. I was born May 31, 1911, in Paris. My parents owned a small cheese shop, and my maternal grandfather was a carpentry worker. I thus came from what is commonly known as the working class.

Maurice Allais

#27. I am not a monetarist, and I am not a Keynesian. On certain points I agree with each.

Maurice Allais

#28. All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data.

Maurice Allais

#29. A theory is only as good as its assumptions. If the premises are false, the theory has no real scientific value. The only scientific criterion for judging the validity of a scientific theory is a confrontation with the data of experience.

Maurice Allais