Bill Gates Quotes

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

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• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• I'm here today because I hated everything else.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Today
  • Everything
  • Here

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Kind
  • Hair
  • Pink

• And since Italy was involved in the space station as well as signed an agreement with NASA. And when the possibility to enter the 1996 Mission Specialist class.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
  • Space
  • Class
  • Mission

• No days off. I'm a workaholic.

  

  Wale
  • Days
  • Workaholic
  • Off

• The American people need to know the truth. The American people need to see the truth. In a democracy, letting the people know the truth is the essence of what it means to be free.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Food
  • Fast Food
  • Taco

• 99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Live
  • Media

• It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Society
  • Tradition

• I think I have character, and that is what people like in me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Character
  • Think

• Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Trust
  • Chance
  • Results

• Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Fire
  • Lead
  • Lit

• Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Culture
  • Progress

• Why do human beings need to confess? Maybe if you don’t have that secret confession, you don’t have a poem - don’t even have a story. Don’t have a writer. If most poetry doesn’t seem to be in any sense confessional, it’s because the strategy of concealment, of obliquity, can be so compulsive that it’s almost entirely successful.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Why
  • Poetry

• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Stock

• The government is not God. It does not have the right to take away that which it can’t return even if it wants to.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • God

• Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers are comic but never amusing. Your Water Tower is a castellated monstrosity with pepperboxes stuck all over it. I am amazed that any people could so abuse Gothic art and make a structure not like a water tower but like a tower of a medieval castle. It should be torn down. It is a shame to spend so much money on buildings with such an unsatisfactory result. Your city looks positively dreary.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• A map in the hands of a pilot is a testimony of a man's faith in other men; it is a symbol of confidence and trust. It is not like a printed page that bears mere words, ambiguous and artful, and whose most believing reader - even whose author, perhaps - must allow in his mind a recess for doubt. A map says to you, 'Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not.' It says, 'I am the earth in the palm of your hand. Without me, you are alone and lost.

  

  Beryl Markham
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Time
  • Love
  • Education

• I love traveling the world, meeting new people, and letting WWE fans know that the champ is out doing his thing and trying to spread the good word of WWE. I love the feeling of being the ambassador for the company.

  

  John Cena
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Author
  • Vaclav Smil