“Well — yes. In modern times, of course.”
Answer to a student at Rochester University who asked whether the bomb exploded at Alamogordo was the first one to be detonated, as quoted in Doomsday, 1999 A.D. (1982) by Charles Berlitz, p. 129
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“Every time I embarked on a new course, there were well-meaning people… who advised against it.”
In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: I have at times felt alone, uncertain, without a well-trodden path to follow. Every time I embarked on a new course, there were well-meaning people... who advised against it. I had to learn early on to be comfortable with insecurity and to trust my own judgement on key issues.
“... much of what is taught in modern corporate finance courses is twaddle.”
Source: 1996 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, YouTube video with quote at 2:41:46 of 4:54:01 in video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YptOBQTb14
The Corrections (2001)
“Yes, of course you want every shot to be a duck-bird [a dead bird? ]”
version in original Dutch: Ja ja, gij zoudt wel willen dat ieder schot een eendvogel was. (wanneer een schilderij niet bevredigend eindigde)
Quoted by Maria Bilders-van Bosse, in her letter to A.C. Loffelt, 23 June 1895; from an excerpt of this letter https://rkd.nl/nl/explore/excerpts/763 in RKD-Archive, The Hague
his comment, when a painting was not good, at the end
posthumous quotes
“Well aunt (quoth Ales) all is well that endes well.
Ye Ales, of a good begynnyng comth a good end.”
Well aunt, said Ales, all is well that ends well.
Yes Ales, of a good beginning comes a good end.
Part I, chapter 10.
Proverbs (1546)