Quotes from ENGG 401 Finance for Engineering, Winter Semester 2008

• Nowadays we store money on electrons, we don’t even need to waste paper.
• The answer to question one is “c”
• Sometimes I invest in things that won’t make money, my wife disapproves of this because she could buy shoes.
• The world is set up so that no-one makes much money.
• I don’t want to deal with cheaters and liars, could all of the cheaters and lairs swap their registration to the other section of this course.
• When I make a graph I always put it in color because then I can say things like “Look at this color graph” that makes people believe our calculations to six decimal places.
• The answer to one of the questions on the midterm is “groupthink”
• The answer to one of the questions on the midterm is “Democratization of Knowledge”
• I can’t let you guys use a laptop with excel during the midterm exam because I realized this would make it possible for me to catch the cheaters and liars in this class and I already told you that I don’t want to deal with cheaters and liars.
• I already told you, below the line means that it needs to be below the line.
• I was talking to someone one who was complaining about not being able to gain weight. I asked her if she had even thought of going to Kentucky Fried Chicken and buying a bucket of chicken and then just eating the skins. Well then her response was “Don that’s gross” so I told her she must not really care about gaining weight if she’s not willing to do the things it takes to gain weight. The exact same thing happens if you want to get rich, you have to sometimes eat lots of chicken skins, Warren Buffet is rich because he knows that.