Bill Gates Quotes

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Bill Gates

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• The California Science Center is a cornerstone in California's push to educate and encourage students to reach their full potential and to pursue careers in science and engineering.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Science
  • California
  • Engineering

• My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Parents
  • Kid
  • Mature

• It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • People
  • Work
  • Beautiful

• Has the smartphone begun to mature, plateau out?

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Mature
  • Out
  • Plateau

• While I was at Cornell in engineering, I was an engineering co-op student, and that turned out to be very valuable because we'd go out every other term to work in industry and have that close association with industry.

  

  Irwin M. Jacobs
  • Work
  • Engineering
  • Student

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

  

  Xavier Niel
  • You
  • Know
  • Software

• In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for work done on a molecule called green fluorescent protein that was isolated from the bioluminescent chemistry of a jellyfish, and it's been equated to the invention of the microscope in terms of the impact that it has had on cell biology and genetic engineering.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Green

• 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

• I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Why
  • Know
  • Always

• My second or third year in the engineering department, I got very frustrated, and I sat down with myself and had a soul-searching conversation with myself and said, 'What I'd really like to do is see if I can write comedy.' ... I moved to L.A. stone cold. Didn't know anybody; didn't know how to go about it. Really started from scratch.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Soul
  • Comedy
  • Myself

• Transhumanism is the ethics and science of using things like biological and genetic engineering to transform our bodies and make us a more powerful species.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Science
  • Powerful
  • Engineering

• Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Nature
  • Engineering
  • Nouveau

• We are victims of the post-Enlightenment view that the world functions like a sophisticated machine, to be understood like a textbook engineering problem and run by wonks. In other words, like a home appliance, not like the human body.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Home
  • Words

• I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • School
  • Night

• 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

• I'm more mature. I respect more the game as I should.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Mature

• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Engineering
  • University
  • San

• Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Up
  • Different
  • Writing

• Spiritual mentors or peers who are mature in their relationship with God and whose present walk with God we trust can seek God with us and provide us with a sort of “safety net.” If we feel the Spirit is leading us to do something but recognize that much is at stake if we are wrong, we may do well to talk the matter over with other mature Christians. Proverbs advised rulers that wisdom rests in a multitude of counselors, and that advice remains valid for us as well. In the end, we may not always settle on the counsel others give us—like us, they too are fallible—but if they are diligent students of the Scriptures and persons of prayer, we should humbly consider their counsel.

  

  Craig S. Keener
  • God
  • Relationship
  • Spiritual

• We have to help young people, because at the end of the day, we won't have an economy if we don't have them.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Help
  • Day

• The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Back
  • Ant

• To us, there was Bob Dylan, and there was dad. As for what he meant to other people, that was never glorified in our house. There were no accolades there, no gold records.

  

  Jakob Dylan
  • People
  • House
  • Dad

• Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Engineering
  • Software
  • Mature