Bill Gates Quotes

People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

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• Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Know
  • Become
  • Let Go

• There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Way
  • You
  • Know

• Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Economy
  • Sustainability

• Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Simple

• I'm mainly an airport author, and if you're trying to take your mind off the journey, you're not going to read 'King Lear.'

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Journey

• People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.'

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Simple

• Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Technology
  • Only

• All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Music
  • Science
  • Air

• As a child, I used 'gay' as a bad word, as in, 'That's so gay.' All my friends did.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Gay

• If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Done
  • Bad
  • Day

• My parents both played golf and introduced me to golf when I was 5 years old. They took me to the driving range and I played around at the range and immediately developed an interest in it.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Parents
  • Golf
  • Interest

• I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • God
  • Father

• 'Hello Rabbit, is that you?''Let's pretend it isn't', said Rabbit, 'and see what happens.'

  

  A. A. Milne

• The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Good
  • Men
  • Revolution

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything about nature, but they taught me a lot about gratitude.

  

  Louie Schwartzberg
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Parents

• I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Age
  • Purpose
  • Lucky

• Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Way
  • Most

• When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning, even after I told them I didn't like it. I had to get even. One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, 'It's a little cloudy.' I took the tube from her and said, 'Let me run it through again,' and drank it. The nurse fainted.

  

  Alan King
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Nurse

• Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Heart
  • Suffering

• People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Underestimate
  • Overestimate