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I don't understand my own sporadic collapses into passivity. Perhaps I never will.

When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

Be grateful for what you have and stop complaining - it bores everybody else, does you no good, and doesn't solve any problems.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.

If it all just happens like this for the rest of my life, it's going to be one endless Groundhog Day. I determined that I was not prepared to submit to this regime, so I thought I had to do something about it.

Indeed, eventually, random outcomes all revert to the mean, meaning that streaks eventually end. Understanding this is a key part of intelligent and rational investing.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.