Bill Gates Quotes

There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

Bill Gates

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• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Great
  • Sports

• Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Growth
  • Depend
  • Global

• I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Movies
  • Patience
  • Boring

• It's important in a relationship to have moments when you do your own thing.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Important
  • You
  • Relationship

• Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Life
  • May
  • Think

• I have lucky boots for military embeds, a lucky scarf for road trips, a lucky handbag, and lucky days of the week. I tap into my gut for 'right' or 'wrong' feelings about such simple things as whether I should go grocery shopping.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • Simple
  • Road
  • Military

• Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Best
  • Awards

• The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Interesting
  • Happen
  • Bedroom

• Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Needs
  • Through
  • Genre

• Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Art
  • True

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.

  

  Sallust
  • Time
  • You
  • Act

• Emasculation does seem to be a theme in the roles that I choose.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Choose
  • Seem
  • Theme

• I had my freedom, and I had my comfortable life, but I couldn't accept the fact that the politicians were making it increasingly difficult for my kids and millions of others to achieve their dreams as I had achieved mine. So, in 2012, I ran for president.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Freedom

• The reality is that politicians, in terms of the amount of power they wield and the amount that they work, don't actually make that much money.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Work
  • Money
  • Power

• Envy aims very high.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Very
  • Envy

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• Around 10, I got chubby. I knew I'd crossed a line when the only pants that fit were from the 'Junior Plenty' line at JC Penny. My parents had split up, my mom was going through a dark time, and my brother and I were getting bullied in our new neighborhood. Life was big and unsafe.

  

  Marti Noxon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

  

  John Calvin
  • Arts
  • Treated
  • Astronomy

• A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Tax

• I probably grow half my food. It's a good way to keep perspective.

  

  Emilio Estevez
  • Good
  • Food
  • Perspective

• It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Mother
  • Enough
  • Neighbor

• There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.

  

  Bill Gates