i'm not sure i like the way you take things out of context, especially when you quote such ppl, and risk to make them sound intelligent :).
The smart part was not in the sentence, but in picking it out from the mumbo-jumbo and putting it somewhere like here. So my feeling is, whoever would see this quote here, should sure as hell quote you having quoted it, rather than just quote it, (although with other, less minimalist quotes from more modest ppls, there'd be no aboslute need to quote you too).