"You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants……" — David Foster Wallace

You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are… - David Foster Wallace

"You have wondered, perhaps, why all real accountants wear hats? They are today's cowboys. As will you be. Riding the American range. Riding herd on the unending torrent of financial data. The eddies, cataracts, arranged variations, fractious minutiae. You order the data, shepherd it, direct its flow, lead it where it's needed ... You deal in facts, gentlemen, for which there has been a market since man first crept from the primeval slurry."

— David Foster Wallace

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