What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons. . . we need the most ultimate, the … - Yevgeny Zamyatin

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To model correctly one tranche of one CDO took about three hours on one of the fastest computers in the United States. There is no chance that pretty much anybody understood what they were doing with these securities. Creating things that you don't understand is really not a good idea no matter who owns it.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons. . . we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?" and "What next?".

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The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

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And everyone must lose his mind, everyone must! The sooner the better! It is essential — I know it.

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You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

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The most effective way of destroying art is the canonization of one given form. And one philosophy.

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The speed of her tongue is not correctly calculated; the speed per second of her toungue should be slightly less than the speed per second of her thoughts -at any rate not the reverse.

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