Seth Quotes

Great investments don't just knock on the door and say "buy me".

Most institutional investors feel compelled to swing at almost every pitch and forgo batting selectivity for frequency.

Short sellers age in dog years.

If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.

You need humility to say 'I might be wrong.'

If another person were to enter the building, it would once again be empty.

Don't short many stocks. Instead they hedge for tail risk with CDS and options. They are happy to incur illiquidity

There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.

When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention.

Having great clients is the key to investment success.

Avoid organizing investment team into silos.

Excess capacity in people, machines, or property will be quickly absorbed.

The government can indefinitely control both short-term and long-term interest rates.

We work really hard never to get confused with what we know from what we think or hope or wish.

I don't believe in journalists having 'responsibility.'

When it comes to their capacity to screw things up, computers are becoming more human every day.

If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

Science consists exactly of those forms of knowledge that can be verified and duplicated by anybody.

At some point, Moore's law will break down.

Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.

Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

I cannot tell good art from bad art. I have no eye for it.

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

I distrust all television doctors.

The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

Character I want to be: "Blunt Talk's".

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

We never really tried to shock for shock's sake on 'Family Guy.' If something was horribly offensive and shocking we would put it in if it was also hysterically funny.

Whoever invented spray cheese had to have been a Harvard guy.

I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.

I don't smoke much pot anymore.

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

I can't believe I am hosting the Oscars. It's an honor everyone else said no.

Every woman's innate ability to let anything go.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

I did a lot of theater when I was in high school and college. I also did stand-up in college, so it was always part of what I did.

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

You would not want me on your football team.

The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

'The Brady Bunch' asks nothing of you as a viewer. Sometimes is just what the doctor ordered.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

The problem with the cable networks is the lack of money, not from personal income but as far as show budget.