Bill Gates Quotes
You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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The lessons I learned from the dark days at Alibaba are that you've got to make your team have value, innovation, and vision. Also, if you don't give up, you still have a chance. And, when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.
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I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
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I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.
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Like a guide dog, paintings help you see.
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Three worldly things have been made dear to me: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked and reading the Qur'an.
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This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
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Anyone involved in planning terror attacks will be a legitimate target for liquidation.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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Morals are private. Decency is public.
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Everything is complex and everything is simple. The rose has no why attached to it, it blooms because it blooms, how no thought of itself, or desire to be seen. What could be more complicated than a rose for someone who wants to understand it? What could be simpler for someone who wants nothing? The complexity of thinking, the simplicity of beholding.
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I'm a subjectivist about morality.
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How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience.
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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
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A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
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If [Ho Chi Minh] had had carte blanche over his movement, would the results of the war have been different? That is difficult to say. In some cases - as in 1945 and 1946, he appeared to overestimate the possibility that the United States might decide to recognize his government and the independence of the DRV (although to be fair, from the outset he had warned that Washington might eventually decide to align with the French because of the Cold War).
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You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years.
