"Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence."

-- Larry Ellison

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“Comparison is a death knell to sibling harmony.”

Source : "Forget poignancy, Arsenal prefer to deal in title significance" by Sachin Nakrani, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.
“I always say that everyone has to start by being true to themselves.”
“But still there are moments when a brother and sister can lay down their instruments of torture for a moment and speak as civilized human beings and Bruno decided to make this one of those moments.”

Source : John Boyne (2012). “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas”, p.158, Random House
“I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.”
“Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.”

Source : "From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor". Book by Jerry Della Femina, 1970.
“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
“Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107.”
“I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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