#on

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#big #chunk #corporation #give #goal

I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective. ↗

— James Ellroy

#am #career #could #detective #i

Oracle's got 100+ enterprise applications live in the #cloud; today, SAP's got nothin' but SuccessFactors until 2020. ↗

— Larry Ellison

#cloud #enterprise #got #live #nothin

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion ↗

— Gregory David Roberts

#religion

Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits. ↗

— John Calvin

#god #worship #religion

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#covert #more #overt #preparation

I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed. ↗

— Ralph Ellison

#ashamed #been #being #grandparents #having

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#religion #theology #religion

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age. ↗

— James Ellroy

#alone #casualty #early #focus #hurt

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it. ↗

— James Ellroy

#chandler #committed #gave #murder #once