A Thought Crossed His Mind:

The Inability To Envision A Certain Kind Of Person Doing A Certain Kind Of Thing Because You've Never Seen Someone Who Looks Like Him Do It Before Is Not Just A Vice. It's A Luxury. What Begins As A Failure Of The Imagination Ends As A Market Inefficiency: When You Rule Out An Entire Class Of People From Doing A Job Simply By Their Appearance, You Are Less Likely To Find The Best Person For The Job.

What Are The Odds That People Will Make Smart Decisions About Money If They Don't Need To Make Smart Decisions--if They Can Get Rich Making Dumb Decisions? The Incentives On Wall Street Were All Wrong; They're Still All Wrong.

Like Adam, Formed From Clay, Children Are Formed From The Biological Material Of Which They Are Made Or By The Hands Of Their Parents.

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.

Jacks Are Home Runs. So Are Dongs, Bombs, And Big Flies. Baseball People Express Their Fondness For A Thing By Thinking Up Lots Of Different Ways To Say It.