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Scary is a good word for it. There are a lot of chip companies trying to find their identity and hoping to bubble to the surface and be the leader in something.

Profits are on the rebound but is it sustainable? Given the extent of the previous bubble in tech, the recovery should be slower. There's a whiff of a pickup in business spending but not enough to hang your hat on just yet.

Jim Allchin

Product quality was the first priority on the first day of Vista (development) and we won't compromise on that. We needed just a few more weeks and that put us in what we would call a bubble where some partners would be impacted more than others and we decided to optimize it for the entire industry.

Bill Cunningham

Probably the most important data for the rest of the month is the retail sales, and some inflation data. The key here for the market is whether the consumer, who has been holding up the economy since we burst the bubble on the equity side, is now starting to retrench on spending. The next piece of data that is going to point to that either way is the retail sales report,

Normally when you talk about housing bubbles bursting, you're talking about a specific local market. But we've never had a nationwide run-up in home prices like this. I don't think it's realistic to think the decline won't also be national. I think a 15 percent nationwide decline is very plausible. In many bubble areas, could be looking at 20-25, maybe 30 percent declines.

After the bubble in the tech sector this spring, I expect the shares to get positively cheap before people start buying again, and we aren't there yet. My view is that we have more downside to come.

After you open a toy, you want to discard that packaging. There are some hidden hazards there for kids. Plastic wrap and bubble wrap can actually be a suffocating hazard. Kids can choke on the little foam peanuts that often come in packaging.

The motto of the bubble was get big fast. The rule today is get big cheap. What tickles my checkbook is the success of capital-efficient startups where the users themselves often contribute the feature road map, software and marketing.

John Thompson

During the Internet bubble people focused on the fast companies,

There's a thought that says Japan had a capacity bubble in the 1980s, we had one in the 1990s and now it's China's turn.

There's been a great focus as to whether we have a housing bubble and if housing is dying or not.

There's an idealism starting to bubble up again. Today's kids aren't the materialist, MBA, Bonfire-of-the-Vanities types that you saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. They're also not the weary, cynical types who think they can't do anything.

A lot of the slowing has to do with all the talk about a housing bubble and with affordability, which is being driven partly by price and partly by mortgage rates. The overall mood has changed.

This giant gas bubble contains about a million times more mass than the Sun and the energy powering its outflow is equal to about 100 supernova explosions.

This giant gas bubble contains about a million times more mass than the Sun, and the energy powering its outflow is equal to about 100 supernova explosions.

This is a bubble, plain and simple. Every bubble has a theory about itself and every bubble bursts. There's never been an exception.

Luis Gonzalez

I told those guys that you really don't see those yet on bubble gum cards on the backs. They count during the season. They can hit 20 or 30 during Spring Training and none of them count.

They had a lot to play for - if they were on the bubble - I thought they were in anyway. They just played really well. For us, the conference championship trophy would've been nice, or at least the chance to play for it.

This is different than the bubbles of biotech and the Internet. The fact is oil is a natural resource so there are capacity constraints that could keep prices relatively high.

Mark Zandi

If Greenspan had been stronger in his views, then the bubble would not have been as large and the subsequent correction not as severe.

John Battelle

I don't think this is the sound of a bubble deflating. I don't think we're in a bubble. But maybe this is a reminder that outsized expectations are, well, outsized.

Dan Hawkins

I'd love to have a bubble . . . but you've got to deal with what you've got to deal with. That's life as we know it and we'll deal with it.

The long-anticipated bubble has certainly not burst and is probably not in existence. It's a favorable outlook for the rest of the year.

Henry Blodget

The environment continues to worsen versus our expectations, and we continue to think the seasonally weak first quarter will be the toughest quarter in terms of year-over-year growth. We also continue to expect the market to strengthen in the second half of the year, when the impact of the dot.com bubble has worked its way out of the system.

Dan Smith

The heavy, wet snow just really compacted on top of the bubble. The bubble was very inefficient.

You've got a bubble in bonds. There is a panic to buy debt just like there was a panic to buy stocks in 1999.

These kind of bubbles are something that everyone participates in. That's why they are bubbles.

The gigantic speculative bubble is popping. We're at a point where some short-term upside pressure is coming off. But I wouldn't be at all surprised to see prices at a new high a year from now.

The Girl Who Loves Bubbles and Talks To Plants

Ben Bernanke

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

Peter Thiel

A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed.