“The VIX right here is unsustainably low. I think China has more of a downside surprise. Analyst expectations for earnings are overly aggressive. There are just a few too many things that can go wrong out there,” said Vadim Zlotnikov, chief market strategist at Alliance Bernstein.
"Getting information off the Internet is akin to trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom," said Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google.
"The Obamacare website had technical issues all week because of too much web traffic. You can't campaign on the fact that too many people don't have health care, and then be surprised that millions don't have health care. That's like 1-800-FLOWERS being caught off guard by Valentine's Day," said a comedian on Saturday Night Live.
“The bubble is in the bond market, not the stock market,” said Leon Cooperman, CEO of Omega Advisors, an original investor in my 1990s hedge fund.
"In the US you, had ten bad years in a row (during the Great Depression) and it still turned out to be a pretty good century," said Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs.
"Where a calculator on the Eniac is equipped with 18,000 tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes, and weigh 1.5 tons," said Popular Mechanics magazine in 1949.
“There are no winners in trade wars. It’s just a question of who loses the most,” said former Fed governor Alan Greenspan.
"Every Napoleon meets his Watergate," said Yogi Berra, former manager of the New York Yankees.
“Humans are vastly underestimated,” said Tesla founder Elon Musk.
“First, get your facts straight. Then, distort them at your leisure,” said the humorist, Mark Twain.