Bill Gates Quotes

At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • City
  • Comedy
  • Amazing

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Never
  • Mistakes
  • Upset

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Kid
  • Disney
  • Been

• When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Band
  • Moment
  • Everyone

• The historian is a prophet looking backward.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Looking
  • Prophet
  • Backward

• I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Magic

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

• When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Fear

• It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

  

  Larry David
  • Country
  • Home
  • Me

• I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.

  

  Tana French
  • Done
  • Book
  • Thought

• Somewhere, over the rainbow, Way up tall, There's a land where they've never heard of cholesterol.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Up
  • Way
  • Rainbow

• How hard, how desperately hard, is the way of the experimenter in art!

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Art
  • Way
  • Hard

• Many of the crisis problems which are considered disasters in the United States would only be normal, everyday living conditions in most of Asia.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Everyday
  • United States
  • Missionary

• If you think there's something you need in order to be happy, then you believe in lack. Then believing you lack, you will create more lack.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Think

• The artist's alertness to the coloristic demands of each picture, the ability to respond to the picture's needs, to feed the color until its appetite is satiated; these are the true measures of a colorist's talent.

  

  Wolf Kahn
  • Talent
  • Ability
  • Demand

• The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.

  

  Ethel Watts Mumford
  • Opportunity
  • Push
  • Pull

• Pictures are written, acted, directed, photo­graphed, edited, scored and all that. The screenwriter determines what scenes are in and what scenes are out; decides whether that bit of information is dramatized or just referred to; whether it takes place on or off screen. There are millions of decisions made by the screenwriter.

  

  Ernest Lehman
  • Decisions
  • Pictures
  • Screenwriter

• The key is that unless there is accountability, we will never get the right system. As long as there are no consequences if kids or adults don't perform, as long as the discussion is not about education and student outcomes, then we're playing a game as to who has the power.

  

  Albert Shanker
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Power

• The United States is a key ally, a strategic partner, and a reliable friend of the Philippines.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Friend
  • Partner
  • United States

• At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Key
  • Applications
  • Juncture