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Ellison's speech at Yale University. Is this true?
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>>>I'm a college dropout and not even close to being on the list, so...once again...Larry Ellison's philosophy is flawed. Even if not true, this definately sounds like something he would say. I remember a joke, that pretty much identifies Ellison:
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>>>Q: What's the difference between God and Larry Ellison?
>>>A: God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison
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>>< bg >I'm not gonna say what I think of "Mr. Bits-in-a-box".
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>>I am non-lettered as well. Personally, I blame it all on two people. J.D. Salinger and Jess Cassel. Salinger wrote in "Franny & Zooey" that Zooey felt that he didn't want a degree if "every elevator operator had one". (I think the quote is fairly accucrate). Jess Cassel was unletter, yet a member of the board of the Great Books Foundation of Encyclopedia Brittanica (circa 1965). He once told my senior class in high school that you either had to have all degrees or no degrees. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.< g >
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>I guess you already know that one.
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>The more new things a person learns, the more things that person forgets. The less things a person learns the less things that person is going to forget.
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>The moral out of this is that it's better not to learn new things.

Sounds like a "Married with Children" episode were Kelly (the dumb blonde) starts to learn all sorts of new things only to have some mudane things (like how to open a door) "fall out".
George

Ubi caritas et amor, deus ibi est
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