Bill Gates Quotes

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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• The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Down

• When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Friends
  • Mother

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Famous
  • Numbers

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Work
  • Men
  • Live

• Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.

  

  Karen Elson
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Myself

• I want to show that the underdog can win. I believe we're all the same: you, a slum girl, my mother.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Girl

• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • Result
  • Exist
  • Acid

• Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Cool

• The cause of war is preparation for war.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • War
  • Preparation

• It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

  

  Corbin Bernsen
  • Great
  • Real
  • Comedy

• If you don't have collective agreements between unions and employers, governments have to legislate more.

  

  Jacques Delors

• I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.

  

  Jeff Tweedy
  • Work

• I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction.

  

  Bob Shaw
  • People
  • Great
  • Science

• My first job was four words in 'Family Matters.' It was huge!

  

  Freddie Prinze, Jr.
  • Family
  • Job
  • Words

• My mother's a Peruvian Indian from Lima who raised me and my four brothers and sisters as a single mom.

  

  Benjamin Bratt
  • Mother
  • Single
  • Mom

• I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Forget
  • Prince

• The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this.

  

  Sigmar Gabriel
  • Democracy
  • Example
  • Ideology

• When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Done
  • Role
  • Broadway

• The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Law
  • Technology
  • Politics