Bill Gates Quotes

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

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• I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.

  

  Early Wynn
  • More
  • Losing
  • Salesman

• If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Want
  • Interesting

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Accordingly, one race is neither superior nor inferior to another.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Race
  • Neither
  • Inferior

• I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Wife
  • Safe
  • Germany

• I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Love
  • City
  • Architecture

• For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.

  

  Washed Out
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I went to a French immersion school, and French-Canadian improv is a big thing, and we had an improv team at school, and 12 of us would get up and make things up against other elementary schools. I'd always wanted to perform, and that was just another extension of it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Up
  • School
  • Team

• I was very much in favor of the Iraq invasion.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Very
  • Much
  • Favor

• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  

  Hans Bender
  • Good
  • Earth
  • Fear

• I come from a family of teachers, and I believe ideas matter; the good ones deserve reverence, and the bad ones, defiance.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Family

• I really just like characters who you don't know where they stand for a long while. It's like people. You hang out with them for 10 years, and then all of a sudden they do something, and you say, 'Who are you?' That's more interesting. In life and on-screen.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• 'House of Cards' opened some doors. I've been able to tackle some diverse stories and characters.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • House
  • Doors
  • Cards

• It was really fun. It was fun for a lot of reasons. It was fun because nobody thought that we would be successful. It was on a network that wasn't even there at the time.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Thought

• It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Parents
  • Desire

• English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Up
  • Nature
  • English

• It's funny because the perception is that the typical 'X Factor' contestant is the person who's just working 9 to 5 and just decides to one day go and audition. So yeah, for me, it was a very different story.

  

  Fleur East
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Day

• I haven't done the profoundly impactful work many TED speakers have.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Work
  • Done
  • Many

• At the keyboard, unrelenting anguish about hurting other people's feelings inhibits spontaneity and constipates creativity.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • People
  • Creativity

• I have very distinct things that I like. I have very distinct opinions. Just because I choose to be a little less overt out on the campaign trail doesn't mean I'm anything less than very opinionated and very intelligent.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Mean
  • Opinion
  • Intelligent

• Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

  

  George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
  • Wear
  • Gentlemen
  • Brown

• I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Work
  • Love
  • Jesus

• So, in my relationships with men, I’ve always sought suffering, conflict, and despair.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Men
  • Suffering

• I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Communication
  • Effects
  • Believer