“This summer season is not only over, you can say it has been martyred!”
“We expect profits to fall by 4 to 5 percent and this is linked to the situation in Lebanon and the region.”
Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based computer security firm, in a statement on the Gauss computer worm targeting Arab bank accounts and affecting more than 1,600 computers in Lebanon: “All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations.”
“I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the last 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that.”
An unnamed director at Standard Chartered in an email to head of the bank’s American operations, following the latter’s warning not to deal with Iranian clients: “You f****** Americans. Who are you to tell us, the rest of the world, that we’re not going to deal with Iranians?”
“Obviously it is very good business from the Arsenal point of view. Their perspective is it is £24 million ($37.7 million) for a 29-year-old who has a history of injury problems and one truly magnificent season in eight. That is great business.”
A NASA scientist after a $2.5 billion mission saw Curiosity, a car-sized rover, land on planet Mars eight months after taking off from Earth:“Touchdown confirmed. We are wheels down on Mars. Oh, my, God.”
Nouriel Roubini, an American economist, famed for having predicted the collapse of the US housing market:“The Olympics are an economic failure as London is totally empty: hotels, restaurants, streets. It turnsout London is totally empty. A zombie city.”
Jaime Ruiz, spokesman for US Customs and Border Protection, after more than 20,000 pairs of fake Christian Louboutin shoes worth $18 million were seized in Los Angeles:“Worn by celebrities and royalty in the fashion world, the lacquered red sole in [the] shoes is a distinctive symbol of the famous French designer Christian Louboutin. However, US Customs and Border Protection specialists have a different view of the lacquered red sole. They see a trademark protected by US law.”
“The Egyptian economy resembles an Arabian horse. It struggles to gallop and can be outright skittish when the surface is uneven and the destination is uncertain. But with firm footing and a clear destination, it can run with speed, endurance and elegance.”
