“Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets”

“Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard adds.”

“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”

“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”

“If I were a robot, and I got cheated on with a vacuum cleaner, I’d question my cleanliness. I’d also wonder if dating a beautiful yellow bulldozer was wise. Is my bulldozer nothing but a gold digger?”

“The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.”