"I think healthy competition is good for business, and really at the end best for end-users. Just think about what Android would have been if it was not for iPhone - a better blackberry?"

“We live in a world we ourselves create.”

Source : "The German Sturm und Drang". Book by Roy Pascal, p. 136, 1959.

“There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

“In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?”

“In the summer between my freshman and sophomore year, my grandfather got me a job at a local messenger company working on Wall Street. I was lucky enough to have been in the business during a stock market boom but just before the fax machine appeared on the scene, let alone email and the Internet. As a result, the messenger business was booming.”

“Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.”

“I hope that the friendship between the members will always remain.”

“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

“Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.”

Source : Speech at the Guildhall, 19 January 1904, in 'The Times' 20 January 1904