Charlie Munger Quotes About Mathematics

Quotes about: Mathematics

• Berkshire was built on the eternal verities: basic mathematics, basic horse sense, basic fear, and basic diagnosis of human nature to make predictions regarding human behavior. We stuck to the basics with a certain amount of discipline and it has worked out quite well.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Discipline, Investing

• I have a name for people who went to the extreme efficient market theory-which is "bonkers". It was an intellectually consistent theory that enabled them to do pretty mathematics. So I understand its seductiveness to people with large mathematical gifts. It just had a difficulty in that the fundamental assumption did not tie properly to reality.

  Charlie Munger

  Reality, Names, Ties

• Even in pure mathematics they can't remove all paradox, and the rest of us should also recognize we are going to have to endure a lot of paradox, like it or not.

  Charlie Munger

  Paradox, Mathematics, Should

  Charlie Munger's remarks at the breakfast meeting of the philantropy round table, November 10, 2000.

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