60th Birthday Quotes

Algorithmic complexity theory and nonlinear dynamics together establish the fact that determinism reigns only over a quite finite domain; outside this small haven of order lies a largely uncharted, vast wasteland of chaos.

Getting older should be seen as a privilege, not a problem. Some people don’t get to see their 40th, 60th or 80th birthdays. Rather than whinging about ageing, let’s be grateful that we’re still here.

Albert Einstein on Max Planck's 60th Birthday (1918) "The supreme task of the physcist is to search for those highly universal laws from which a picture of the world can be obtained by pure deduction. There is no logical path leading to these. They can only be reached by intuition, based upon something like an intellectual love of objects of experience." (Quoted by Karl Popper in The Logic Of Scientific Discovery (1934)

Stephen Schwarzman, who runs the Blackstone Group and is perhaps the most successful, or show-offy. of the private-equity moguls (he makes $300 million a year or so), celebrated his 60th birthday this winter with a multimillion-dollar party of the era at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory for 1,500 friends and any celebrity who'd show up. . . More cautious people equated Schwarzman's birthday with the party Saul Steinberg, a financial self-promoter of the 80s, threw for himself in 1989, which marked the high point of that bubble. Even Schwarzman himself was hinting that the end might be near.” Michael Wolff, “Serious Money,” May 2007