indexes quotes

It is unlikely that anyone will write his biography, but he will be enshrined in10,000 indexes.

- Henry Southworth Allen
  Of Brent Scowcroft, National Security Council adviser to George Bush. In the Washington Post, 3  Jan.

Commentators quote economic studies alleging that market downturns predicted four out of the last five recessions. That is an understatement.Wall Street indexes predicted nine out of the last five recessions!

- Paul Anthony Samuelson
  Quoted in The Samuelson Sampler (1973).