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.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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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.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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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.
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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.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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I rely heavily on my beta readers' honest critiques.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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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.
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When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.
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Sometimes you think they must have come out of the chimp cages at the Bronx zoo.
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We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights.
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Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible.
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I thought everybody had falsetto. And since I wasn't a schooled singer who studied with anybody, I just thought anybody who had a voice could do anything they wanted with their voice.
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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?
