The sound of falling apples

"'The investment-banking industry is fucked,' Eisman told me a few weeks earlier. 'These guys are only beginning to understand how fucked they are. It's like being a Scholastic, prior to Newton. Newton comes along, and one morning you wake up: 'Holy shit, I'm wrong.''"

--from Michael Lewis, The End

If social entrepreneurs had that level of self-awareness, they might actually resemble the business world they claim to emulate.