“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable for magic, said Arthur C. Clark, futurologist and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"By historic, fundamental measures, stocks are extremely high. PE multiples are at 100 year highs. But if you look at stock prices relative to interest rates, they are exactly where they should be," said hedge fund legend, Stanley Druckenmiller.
"Interest rates are gravity. When they are zero, share prices can go to infinity. When they are high, as they were during the early 1980s, the gravitational pull can be very strong," said Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
When asked how he felt when visiting the Federal Reserve at the height of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein responded, "I'm getting out of a Mercedes to go to the Federal Reserve, not getting out of a Higgins Boat going to Omaha Beach."
“At some point, all the money that has been parked in bonds and money market funds over the last five years will go into equities,” said Julian Emanuel of investment bank BTIG.
"Legalize gay Marijuana," said a bumper sticker seen in Northern Nevada.
"It is insane to risk what you have and need to obtain what you don't need," said Oracle of Omaha Warren Buffet about the extreme leverage found in many modern securities and trading strategies.
“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.