Quite possibly, the best thing I've ever heard

I attended a meeting yesterday that really felt like it could be two or three notches above my pay grade. I was asked to attend by our COO, so I wasn't going to question it. Our former CTO was in attendance, because apparently, some people think he knows something. Certainly, no asked me, but I'm not among them.

About an hour into the meeting, the former CTO and one of the sales engineers from the company courting us to become a partner got into what I would call, "dick waving." Nothing was really being said, neither party was listening to the other, and it quickly devolved into simple case of, "I think know more than you do, and I'm going to make all these people believe my side of the story."

This went on for about 15 minutes.

It was quite the volley, and I think we all enjoyed watching the verbal masturbation -- who doesn't? At the end of this, the SE from this company latched on to one of the former CTO's comments. It was then, that I heard the greatest statement ever:

I know you think you understand what you believe I said, but what you heard is not what I meant.

Realizing that this could be the greatest thing ever, I wrote it down verbatim, right then. What's odd is, if you plug that statement into your favorite search engine, there are numerous iterations of it.

What kind of person would lift that kind of drivel from someone else, and be proud to repeat it in a high-level, multi-million dollar meeting?