Dave Cutler Quotes

In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

  

  Mae West
  • Search
  • Coffee
  • Meaning

• In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • Great
  • You
  • Depression

• Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Look

• Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.

  

  Ed Belfour
  • Sometimes
  • Competitive

• 'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Art
  • War
  • Story

• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Power
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• In fiction, you know, there are no borders. You can go anywhere.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • You
  • Know
  • Fiction

• The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

  

  Hannah Cowley
  • Women
  • Powerful
  • Never

• I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Writer
  • Mystery
  • Suspense

• He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Good
  • Busy

• I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • People
  • Faults
  • Other

• The true art of memory is the art of attention.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • True
  • Attention

• I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

  

  Manmohan Singh
  • Power
  • You
  • Nuclear Power

• No crime lab in the world looks like the 'CSI' ones because there's simply not the money for all those fancy machines.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • World
  • Money
  • Crime

• People ask where writers get ideas.Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I don't spend afternoons practicing my guitar to get better. I do read, though, to get inspiration for my lyrics.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Inspiration
  • Guitar
  • Lyrics

• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Why
  • Desire

• I've never really had the opportunity to play something that's a complete departure from me yet.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Never

• Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Beautiful
  • Interesting

• In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable.

  

  Dave Cutler
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting
  • Summer