Bill Gates Quotes

Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

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• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Character
  • Mercy
  • Head

• I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Good
  • Country
  • Journey

• To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Good
  • Better
  • Fathers Day

• I'm not a natural joiner.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Natural

• One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Popular

• In spite of recent jazzed-up one-day matches, cricket to be fully appreciated demands leisure, some sunny warm days and an understanding of its finer points.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Understanding

• All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that’s the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it’s life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Truth
  • True

• Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Long
  • Death
  • Joy

• Stephan Arkadievich chose neither his attitudes nor his opinions, no, the attitudes and opinions came to him on their own, just as he chose neither the style of his hat nor of his coats but got what people were wearing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Style

• Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Women

• I've been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • People
  • Career
  • Beginning

• The food we eat goes beyond its macronutrients of carbohydrates, fat and protein. It's information. It interacts with and instructs our genome with every mouthful, changing genetic expression.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Food

• There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

  

  James Spithill
  • Team

• Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Funny

• But the Go-Go's are a very original, kind of organic thing.

  

  Kathy Valentine

• Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.

  

  Paolo Nutini
  • Racism

• I liked doing comedies, but as I got older I was better suited to do Westerns. Because I think it becomes unattractive for an older fellow trying to look young, falling in love with attractive girls in those kinds of situations.

  

  Joel McCrea
  • Trying

• Waking up early was the first example I noticed in the SEAL Teams in which discipline was really the difference between being good and being exceptional.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • Up
  • Good
  • Discipline

• I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Effects

• You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!'

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Mystery
  • Puzzle

• I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

  

  Nigel Kneale
  • Stories
  • Television

• I'm not really obsessed with death.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Death

• In the 1950s and early 1960s, psychoanalysis swept through the intellectual community, and it was the dominant mode of thinking about the mind. People felt that this was a completely new set of insights into human motivation, and that its therapeutic potential was significant.

  

  Eric Kandel
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• Microsoft's philosophy is to 'do things better.' And Vista has given us lots of opportunity to do that.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Microsoft's philosophy
  • Vista