"When the iPhone came out, every CIO in America said, 'You're not bringing that into our corporate environment,' my CIO included."

-- Randall L. Stephenson

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“The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.”
“Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?”
“I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls off the table. The good thing is that the things that stay on the table become so much more important.”
“I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.”
“These ceremonies and the National Statuary Hall will teach the youth of the land in succeeding generations as they come and go that the chief end of human effort in a sublunary view should be usefulness to mankind, and that all true fame which should be perpetuated by public pictures, statues, and monuments, is to be acquired only by noble deeds and high achievements and the establishment of a character founded upon the principles of truth, uprightness, and inflexible integrity.”

Source : Remarks in the House, as quoted in "Congressional Record", vol. 11, p. 1611, February 15, 1881.
“Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a respectable career that could be safely conducted on dry land. So he built boats. Mariano the Third built bigger boats. And by the time a girl from a very different type of family business arrived at their shopfront on the Mediterranean coast, Mariano the Fourth had built and patented at least half a dozen of the most advanced (and justifiably expensive) watercrafts in the world.”
“You should tell her how nice her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't.”

Source : Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.84, Simon and Schuster
“It's one thing to make lemonade out of lemons, another to proclaim that lemons are what you'd hope for in the first place.”

Source : Gary Marcus (2009). “Kluge: The Haphazard Evolution of the Human Mind”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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