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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.

A Banking System Is An Act Of Faith: It Survives Only For As Long As People Believe It Will.

There's Something Bad In Everything Good And Something Good In Everything Bad.

People Really Don't Like To Hear Success Explained Away As Luck — Especially Successful People. As They Age, And Succeed, People Feel Their Success Was Somehow Inevitable. They Don't Want To Acknowledge The Role Played By Accident In Their Lives. There Is A Reason For This: The World Does Not Want To Acknowledge It Either. If You Use Better Data, You Can Find Better Values; There Are Always Market Inefficiencies To Exploit, And So On. But It Has A Broader And Less Practical Message: Don't Be Deceived By Life's Outcomes. Life's Outcomes, While Not Entirely Random, Have A Huge Amount Of Luck Baked Into Them. Above All, Recognize That If You Have Had Success, You Have Also Had Luck — And With Luck Comes Obligation.

I Always Find With My Stories That The Way They Start Is That I Just Get So Interested In A Person That I'm Compelled To Go Back To Them Over And Over Until I Learn More And More About Them, Without Even Quite Thinking It's Material For A Book.