Bill Gates wants people to think hes Edison, when hes really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isnt right… wealth isnt the same thing as intelligence. – Larry Ellison
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides whos going to build. – Larry Ellison
A corporations primary goal is to make money. Governments primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. – Larry Ellison
Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden theyre completely dependent on you and theres a third generation. Its a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents. – Roger Federer
To those who visited the old Library of Congress at the Capitol he will always be associated with it — a long, lean figure, in scrupulous frock, erect at a standing desk, and intent upon its littered burden, while the masses of material surged incoherently about him. – Herbert Putnam, of librarian Ainsworth Rand Spofford (1825–1908), 1908, wo