Bill Gates Quotes

Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

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• The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Complexity

• I've never dyed my hair or even gotten highlights. All the products I need for my hair are at the drugstore!

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Hair
  • Need
  • Products

• Synergies are not only about cost reduction. Synergies can be access to markets, exchange of products, avoiding overlaps, exchange of best practices.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Products
  • Access

• We have most of the software industry running Autonomy.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Running
  • Industry
  • Software

• If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Know
  • Software

• The dynamic with social is you tend not to have products with 30% market share. It's all or nothing. Email works because we have open standards that let you communicate across any email client.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • You
  • Products
  • E-mail

• That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.

  

  Nassau William Senior
  • May
  • Wealth
  • Products

• Software tends not to kill people, and so we accept incredibly fast innovation loops because the consequences are tolerable and the results are astonishing.

  

  Dan Kaminsky
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Software

• Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Culture
  • Changed
  • Software

• Whether you are a consumer, a hardware maker, a software developer or a provider of cool new services, it's hard to make a move in the American cellphone world without the permission of the companies that own the pipes.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • American
  • Cool

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Want
  • Goal
  • Complexity

• Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • History
  • Movie
  • Down

• I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Bad

• The problem is not software 'friendliness'. It is conceptual clarity. A globe does not say, 'good morning'. It is simple and clear, not 'friendly'.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Good
  • Simple
  • Problem

• We did not effectively manage our licensing program, ... While we negotiated good deals, introduced great products in the marketplace, we failed to provide the retail marketing support and monitoring that was needed.

  

  Linda McMahon
  • Good
  • Great
  • Support

• Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.

  

  L Peter Deutsch
  • Made
  • Mathematics
  • Software

• We are trying to find out if we can use the worms or their products to lesson the impact of allergies

  

  John Britton
  • Trying
  • Impact
  • Products

• I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • People
  • Done
  • Respect

• My good ideas are shy. But if they see that I treat the stupid ideas with respect, they come forward.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Good
  • Respect
  • Stupid

• In high school, I was performing "forensics." You take a section of a play and portray all the characters. I even went to camp for forensics.

  

  Allison Silverman
  • School
  • Forensics

• There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

  

  Carol Friedman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Share

• Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in software millions of different cases and making sure that you handle all of them correctly is extremely difficult.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Products
  • Software
  • Complexity