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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.

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.

Some Coaches Believed They Could Judge A Player's Performance Simply By Watching It. In This They Were Deeply Mistaken. The Naked Eye Was An Inadequate Tool For Learning What You Needed To Know To Evaluate Baseball Players And Baseball Games. Think About It. One Absolutely Cannot Tell, By Watching, The Difference Between A .300 Hitter And A .275 Hitter. The Difference Is One Hit Every Two Weeks. The Difference Between A Good Hitter And An Average Hitter Is Simply Not Visible-it Is A Matter Of Record

The World Clings To Its Old Mental Picture Of The Stock Market Because It’s Comforting; Because It’s So Hard To Draw A Picture Of What Has Replaced It; And Because The Few People Able To Draw It For You Have No Interest In Doing So.

The Incentive For The Outsider Is To Attack The System Right Up To The Moment He Is Co-opted By It. The Incentive For The Insider -and This Took Some Getting Used To- Is To Allow Yourself To Be Attacked, And Then Co-opt Your Most Ferocious Attackers, And Their Best Ideas. The Effect On The System As A Whole Is To Make It More Stable, Because Everyone Winds Up Working On Its Behalf.