The Germans made just about every bad investment you could have made in the last 10 years. They invested in Icelandic banks. They invested in Greek government bonds. They were heavy into Irish banks, big into Irish banks, and they bought U.S. subprime mortgage bonds.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.

It is far better to keep the enemy close, by bribing him with stock options, than to have him out in the wild, foraging.

Why pay $20 million to Harrison Ford? I dont even understand that. They think they have to do it... If someone puts a price on himself, that suggests he is irreplaceable, then he better find somewhere else to work.

At SGI board meetings... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.