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Om gambling:

"It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees." - Mario Puzo, Inside Las Vegas

"Gambling is a principle inherent in nature." - Edmund Burke

"For the true gambler, money is never an end in itself. It's a tool, like language or thought." - Lancey "The Man" Howard i filmen Cincinnati Kid

"All successful gamblers are statisticians, not mathematicians." - Mason Malmuth, Gambling Theory and Other Topics

Om Blackjack:

"Blackjack is the only casino game an amateur can learn to play and at which he can definitely win." - Lawrence Revere, Playing Blackjack as a Business

Om tur:

"Standard deviation is the fluctuation that occurs between the probabality of an event occuring and the actual outcome. It can be toward the positive side if an event occurs more than it mathematically should or the negative side if occurs less than it should. The ebb and flow of positive and negative fluctuation is what we actually mean when the refer to luck." - Bill Burton, 1000 Best Casino Gambling Secrets

Om att vinna:

"Money won is twice as sweet as money earned." - Från filmen The Color of Money

Om metafysik:

"All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion." - Stephen Hawking