Bill Gates Quotes

If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

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• We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

  

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• Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

  

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• Künstler, was du nicht schaffen mußt, das darfst du nicht schaffen wollen.

  

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• If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Success corrupts