Here are some of my favorite pearls:
"I know how the stock market werkz"
"There is zero risk in the market"
"For the love of God, just buy everything"
"Subprime? What subprime?"
"I was long on the Dow at 14000, and I am still long. Werd."
:)
Every ET poll is amusing in its own way. According to this one, 90% of the participants think they can beat the market. As someone said, this world is full of unrealistic motherfuckers.
Despite the upcoming claims to the contrary, no one knows. It is a well established fact that "elite traders" are wrong about the market direction most of the time.
1000^5 is not a normalized representation (although numerically it's correct), so for full clarity:
One petabyte = 10^15 bytes
One pebibyte = 2^53 bits