Blythe Masters quotes

Blythe Masters quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.”
-- Blythe Masters

Source : "The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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“The Christian that is bound by his own horizon, the church that lives simply for itself, is bound to die a spiritual death and sink into stagnancy and corruption. We never can thank God enough for giving us not only a whole Gospel to believe, but a whole world to give it to.”
“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”
“I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?”
“Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.”
“The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.”
“Nothing is forever, if you have enough power tools.”
“A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.”
“The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.”

Source : "Simple downloads, complex change" by Michael Coren, www.cnn.com. August 23, 2004.
“All gardeners need to know when to accept something wonderful and unexpected, taking no credit except for letting it be.”
“You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.”

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