He was prepared for the odd world of quants, he said, by playing on the MIT blackjack team--a different version of the team portrayed in the movie 21, in which a group of students figured out that with investor backing, they could consistently beat the house in Las Vegas by counting cards.
In the odd little world of the NHL these days, the Pittsburgh Penguins, featuring Sidney Crosby, are the glamour team while the Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks are bigger draws than the New York Rangers and Los Angeles Kings.
To some the reluctance to pronounce publicly might appear odd in a world that assigns such importance to a presence in the media.
Municipal socialism may seem an odd strategy for the world's capital of capitalism to embrace.
Yes, all 190 odd members of the United Nations, all 250 odd legal jurisdictions around the world.
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"In 16th- and 17th-century Flanders, it was all the rage to collect odd items from around the world and display them in ornate verzamel cabinets, " Van Steenbergen-di Resta said.
While Chardonnay grew to fame as "white Burgundy, " Pinot Gris began turning up in odd corners of the wine world under murky aliases: In France alone, Pinot Gris is also known as Tokay d'Alsace, Pinot Beurot in Burgundy and Malvoisie in the Loire.
Similarly, the start-ups today that are really making a difference in changing the world are a bit odd at first.
Produced by a startup called Orbotix and for For sale now in a range of retail store, Sphero is an odd but appealing entry into the world of video gaming.
This odd way of looking at the world appears commonplace in both parties: Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney killed a hundred weapons programs in the midst of a recession, and the Obama Administration did much the same thing at the height of the more recent downturn.
With Matsushita on board, Symbian's parents now account for some 85% of the world's 175m-odd mobile phones.
Already, the world's 700-odd waste-to-energy plants generate more power than all its wind turbines and solar panels put together.
And here's the odd little bit of history, in World War II the Japanese parachuted bombs onto the west coast, and into Alaska, even.
But as several religion-watchers have noted, the church would risk sending an odd signal to the country and the world if it rejected him in favour of a safe, white pair of hands.
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Some 40% of official British aid goes through the UN, the World Bank and 30-odd other multilateral organisations, with agencies such as UNESCO and the Food and Agriculture Organisation seen as particularly feeble.
In fact it is anomalous that a group of 30-odd countries with a small fraction of the world's population should be calling the shots.
It has been odd living in a dark, pre-industrialized world in the middle of New York City.
Unfortunately, so much of what passes for compliance activity on Wall Street always seems impressive but for some odd, inexplicable reason, under the pressure of real world events, the impressiveness of these compliance safeguards often wither and come off as more form rather than substance.
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It was history's odd timing: A great historical rupture in the Arab world, bearing within it the promise of remaking a flawed political tradition that knew no middle ground between despotism and nihilistic violence, happened on the watch of an American president proud of his deliberateness and his detachment from history's passions.
His demand that world-class universities ignore hip hop is an odd cry for remedial provincialism: a return to a climate of academic curiosity where only a narrow range of subjects could be legitimately pursued.
In the English computer industry, and that part of the financial world that looks at computing, Autonomy was always rather an odd beast.
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The U.S. will remain the strongest driver but will need to find markets for selling more as well as buying. (Investment flows, and the strength of the dollar, will figure in this.) Another key factor will be China--how fast it integrates into the world trading system as a nation, and as 30-odd provinces and zones.
Wars have an odd tendency to break out in August, whether by accident (the first world war in 1914) or by design (Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990).
In retrospect it seems odd and, of course, tragic that in those days, just after World War II, while much of the rest of the world was at least tentatively coming to grips with the embarrassing inequities of racism and colonialism, the Afrikaners were moving their country headlong in the opposite direction.
The odd sensation today is that the United States is looking the healthiest economy in the world.
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That might sound odd until you learn she is a wardrobe stylist based in Nashville who tours the world with musical acts.
At a time when untold wealth is reaching all parts of the globe, four-fifths of the world's 6.1 billion people scrape by, many doing odd jobs or running small businesses.
At a time when untold wealth is reaching all parts of the globe, two thirds of the world's 6.1 billion people scrape by, many doing odd jobs or running small businesses.
If you look hard enough you can find the odd science program tucked away on BBC2 but once upon a time Tomorrow's World was on: the technologies may not have always worked but it showed how science was developing and explained it.
Some may see this as odd, given that his plan for the privatisation of the biggest financial institution in the world is less radical that it sounds.
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