On Losing a Billion Dollars

A friend of mine who runs hedge funds recently tried to explain to me how
really astronomical amounts of money can go missing more easily than
smaller, more comprehensible amounts. “Nobody really understands what 1.4
billion dollars means, what it looks like, or where it might go.”

—William Gibson. 17 OCT 2004. [HREF=”http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2004_10_01_archive.asp#10980516120
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