Sublime

Bird was one of the most consistent free-throw shooters in the history of the NBA. Growing up, his habit was to practice five hundred free-throw shots every morning before school.

a “genius with a thousand helpers” model. Instead of building an extraordinary management team like the good-to-great companies, they operated on the fixed-mindset premise that great geniuses do not need great teams.

“Of its output,” Arnold would later say of his group, “inventions are a valuable part, but invention is not to be scheduled nor coerced.” The point of this kind of experimentation was to provide a free environment for “the operation of genius.” His point was that genius would undoubtedly improve the company’s operations just as ordinary engineering

Dennis and Eckhardt were adamant that their students consider themselves scientists first and traders second—a testament to their belief in doing the “right thing.”

He was a graduate of West Point, a military academy which turned young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.

With McKelvey, who had remained a lifelong friend, it was a little different. McKelvey was an outstanding rebounder who understood postitioning and timing. I was enormously helped by visualizing his moves, but again I was constrained because what I was really doing was imitating, not creating.