J. B. Bernstein Quotes

The number of neurons in the brain is very much larger than the number of components in a computer.

Never speak more clearly than you think.

Imitating paper isn't the goal; the goal is surpassing paper.

Hypertext, as Nelson [Ted Nelson] originally wrote, is interlinked reading and writing. Links make hypertext.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

The living Web unfolds in time, and as we see each daily revelation we experience its growth as a story.

The point is that the reader's journey through our site is a narrative experience. Our job is to make the narrative satisfying.

My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

Investment success accrues not so much to the brilliant as to the disciplined.

The deeper one delves, the worse things look for actively managed funds.

The key thing about any fund is to make sure its expenses are low. You know, if you look at the funds in your plan and you see that they're all charging 1.5 and 2 percent,you've gota bad plan.

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.

The key aspect of an index fund is that many of them, not all of them, but many of them are extremely cheap.

The essence of effective portfolio construction is the use of a large number of poorly correlated assets.

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.

A sense of peace came over me and I must have been smiling as I fell asleep.

Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity

What wonderful things dreams are! They can make you be anything you want and take you anyplace in the world.

I witness that I’m out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this.

I step back and let the Universe lead the way.

Trust that your wounds are exactly as the Universe planned. They were divinely placed in your life in the perfect order so that you could show up for them with love and remember the light within.

Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

This will be our reply to violence:to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

The women cried with one another, and it didn't seem to matter whether you were Jewish or Christian, you just mourned.

Praying is the time to ask and meditating is the time to listen.

It’s human nature to find patterns where there are none and to find skill where luck is a more likely explanation.

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

Sometimes "the fool who rushes in" gets the job done.