Bill Gates Quotes

If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

Bill Gates

• Waste Of Time
• Inappropriate

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• Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Time
  • Waste
  • Waste Of Time

• Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Waste

• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  

  Alan Kulwicki
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Excellence

• One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

  

  E. M. Broner
  • Needs
  • Inappropriate
  • Grain Of Salt

• It's a three-hour or deal, and actually a waste of time.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Deal
  • Waste Of Time

• If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Looking
  • Waste Of Time

• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  

  John Milton
  • Honour
  • Waste Of Time
  • Tedious

• WWW? Nice toy, but what a waste of time.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Waste Of Time
  • Toy

• Obsessing about weight is a big old waste of time.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Weight
  • Waste Of Time
  • Obsessing

• I would say that Futurama: Bender's Big Score requires a lot of concentration to watch. It's a very complicated time-travel story. Part of the joke on that was just that the complexity would be over the top. This one is a more straight-forward science-fiction story, I would say. Alien invasion and people running in terror, that kind of thing, with a slight twist of there being an inappropriate physical relationship with the big octopus monster. We've got a straight-up science-fiction movie.

  

  David X. Cohen
  • People
  • Running
  • Kind

• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Healthy
  • Excellence
  • Perfection

• Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS’s behavior “inappropriate. ” No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the Internal Revenue Service for political purposes is a criminal offense.

  

  George Will
  • Political
  • Purpose
  • Inappropriate

• There's so much we can't express in our day-to-day interaction with people because it's considered inappropriate. And acting is all about being inappropriate.

  

  Wentworth Miller
  • People
  • Acting
  • Inappropriate

• What I learned from my son's birth is that fearing the future is normal but a waste of time.

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Learned
  • Birth
  • Waste Of Time

• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
  • Weather
  • Clothing
  • Inappropriate

• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  

  Carl Pope
  • Energy
  • Belief
  • Republican

• The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Killing

• Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Knowledge
  • Conscience

• Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Action
  • Surprise
  • Mythology

• I used to be a classic workaholic, and after seeing how little work and career really mean when you reach the end of your life, I put a new emphasis on things I believe count more. These things include: family, friends, being part of a community, and appreciating the little joys of the average day.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • Believe
  • Friends
  • Community

• Other than that, I've taken grief my whole life over the way I played and this and that. I let the criticism roll of my back and use it to get better.

  

  Bob Golic
  • Life
  • Criticism
  • Grief

• When I was in high school, people would ask me what I wanted to do, and I would always say I wanted to 'lead marches and give speeches.'

  

  Michael Tubbs
  • People
  • School
  • Say

• Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Exciting
  • Coming
  • Terribly

• If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Waste Of Time
  • Inappropriate