Harry Markowitz Quotes

In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

Harry Markowitz

• Portfolio theory
• Von Neumann Prize
• Operations Research Theory
• Programming language

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• One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Long
  • Doing

• Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Clock

• I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Future
  • Small
  • Choices

• I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Democracy

• I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Artist

• England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • You
  • Find
  • Irony

• The Church does not pretend to be scientists. It teaches based upon what science tells it.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Science
  • Church
  • Pretend

• I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • People
  • Life
  • Country

• There are some people who can receive a truth by no other way than to have their understanding shocked and insulted.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • People
  • Truth
  • Understanding

• If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Plan
  • Keep
  • Doctor

• I cry at everything, even the length of the queue at Sainsbury's.

  

  Arabella Weir

• I have the utmost respect for synthesizers - Soft Cell, early Depeche Mode. But that's become a cliche for the '80s.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Respect

• I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.

  

  Elizabeth Olsen

• If a bacterium is trying to infect you, it won't secrete alone, because your immune system will block it. Bacteria will hide until they can all act together and make an impact.

  

  Bonnie Bassler
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Alone

• I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.

  

  Dennis Rodman
  • Trying
  • Game

• The Mississippi coast is not like south Florida, but it always seems warm enough for sandals and short-sleeved shirts, except for now and then.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist

• The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

  

  Connie Mack
  • Game
  • Faith

• Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Return
  • Modesty

• Portfolio theory, as used by most financial planners, recommends that you diversify with a balance of stocks and bonds and cash that's suitable to your risk tolerance.

  

  Harry Markowitz
  • Balance
  • Cash
  • Stocks

• I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Eye
  • Possibility
  • Behinds

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.

  

  Kathleen McGowan
  • Beautiful
  • Perfect
  • Human

• In 1989, I was awarded the Von Neumann Prize in Operations Research Theory by the Operations Research Society of America and The Institute of Management Sciences. They cited my works in the areas of portfolio theory, sparse matrix techniques and the SIMSCRIPT programming language.

  

  Harry Markowitz
  • Portfolio theory
  • Von Neumann Prize
  • Operations Research Theory