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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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."
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I don't want anybody to underestimate the difficulties ahead.
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We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
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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.
