Bill Gates Quotes

If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

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• The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Mind
  • Thoughts
  • Direction

• My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Make
  • Plan
  • Canada

• I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Second
  • Liked
  • Rembrandt

• Beauty is not just physical.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Beauty
  • Just
  • Physical

• I have a theory that there are still parts of our mental worlds that are still based around the age of between five and eight, and we just kind of pretend to be grown-up.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Age
  • Kind

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Relationship

• I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Science
  • Research
  • Reaction

• The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Music
  • Job
  • Attention

• I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.

  

  Wendy Higgins
  • Honest
  • Readers
  • Rely

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Time
  • Great
  • Remember

• When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Data

• I read everything by Ian McEwan, he is so elegant. I love reading anything about Shakespeare, too. He is my first love. If I had a time machine, I would be hanging out with him.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Time
  • Read
  • Elegant

• No matter who we are or what we look like or what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • May
  • Together

• The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Movie
  • Freedom
  • Challenge

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Country
  • Rock

• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Achievement

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • May
  • Freedom

• Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Want
  • Successful
  • Process

• If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?

  

  Bill Gates