The Big Short * Quotes

"Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry."

"Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come."
[quotation on screen from Haruki Murakami's novel 'IQ84']

Danny Moses: "You're completely sure of the math?"
Jared Vennett: "Look at him, that's my quant."
Mark Baum: "Your what?"
Jared Vennett: "My quantitative. My math specialist. Look at him, you notice anything different about him? Look at his face."
Mark Baum: "That's pretty racist."
Jared Vennett: "Look at his eyes, I'll give you a hint, his name is Yang. He won a national math competition in China he doesn't even speak English! Yeah I'm sure of the math."

"We live in an era of fraud in America. Not just in banking, but in government, education, religion, food... even baseball..."

"Short everything that man has touched."

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
[On screen quote from Mark Twain]

"Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested."