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jedrider wrote:Got to go to these sets of quotes whenever I'm dismayed like this:

Albert Einstein's Best Quotes

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

That does a disservice to my education, though, which was good considering how poor a student I was. I don't feel I was lied to very often, although they did leave out a hell of a lot!

I once was a student. By the time my education was complete, I just wanted to get the hell out of school and work. Not take tests, not regurgitate answers, just...work. So I did that for awhile. Then I changed careers, and suddenly the ability to learn and think for oneself was paramount. To study and understand and build better ideas and concepts, and advance some facet of science. I became a student again. Haven't stopped since then.

I'm quite the fan of a quote attributed to another smart fellow. Interestingly, this quote shows up as an Albert Einstein one as well. Doesn't matter to me which one figured it out I suppose.

mousepad wrote:

Outcast_Searcher wrote:Sure. Let's pretend that, for example, oil production and GDP over the last 50 years had no correlation. Let's pretend also that, say, the US stock market, gaining about 9% before inflation since 1929 (when good records started being kept) is not a trend.
LOL

What's your point? Why do we need to pretend?

I was being sarcastic.