Everybody had feared worse than what Apple and Intel delivered. The market had priced in a tough quarter. Overall, you have to be pleased with earnings.


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I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JOHNSON
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the ...
BEN HECHT
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effo...
BEN HECHT
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
BEN JOHNSON
Blueness doth express trueness.
BEN JONSON
All concord's born of contraries.
BEN JONSON
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world ...
BEN STEIN
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achieveme...
BEN STEIN
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
BEN JONSON
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is neve...
BEN STEIN
Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would ...
BEN MANSKI
Thirty years after drafting the US Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson warned of the dange...
BEN MANSKI
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I.
BEN JONSON
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, t...
BEN OKRI
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alter...
BEN OKRI
The greatest success, is successful self acceptance.
BEN SWEET
Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.
BEN HOROWITZ
I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so ...
BEN JONSON
Sweet meat must have sour sauce.
BEN JONSON
So wise, so grave, of so perplex'd a tongue, And loud withal, that would not wag, not scarce L...
BEN JONSON
I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you
BEN FOLDS
A woman is most merciless when shame goads on her hate.
BEN JONSON
A brute without a single redeeming point.
BEN JONSON
O what is it proud slime will not believe Of his own worth, to hear it equal praised Thus with...
BEN JONSON
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
BEN HECHT
Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk,...
BEN JOHNSON
As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.
BEN BRADLEE