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"It's in the nature of stock markets to go way down from time to time. There's no system to avoid bad markets. You can't do it unless you try to time the market, which is a seriously dumb thing to do. Conservative investing with steady savings without expecting miracles is the way to go."
"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"
"Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it."
"No one will need more than 637Kb of memory for a personal computer"
"Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace."
"To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'"
"Consultants have credibility because they are not dumb enough to work at your company."
"We know that no one person can succeed unless everybody else succeeds."
"Strategic plans cause more dumb decisions than anything else in America."
"The beauty of a financial institution is that there are a lot of ways to go to hell in a bucket. You can push credit too far, do a dumb acquisition, leverage yourself excessively - it's not just derivatives [that can bring about your downfall]."
"Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time."
"I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I."
"Don't be smart. Smart is only a polished version of dumb. Try intelligence. It will surely see you through."
"How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature."
"I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't."
"Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."
"There's no 'dumb-ass' vaccine."
"My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."
"It's modern-day slavery."
