Bill Gates Quotes

Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

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• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Problem
  • Smart

• I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

  

  Uri Geller
  • Kitchen
  • Eating
  • Lifting

• I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Religious

• I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Up
  • School
  • English

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Evidence
  • Absence

• My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Hope
  • Education

• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • You
  • Sleep

• I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Opportunity
  • Myself
  • Fight

• Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Theatre
  • Competition
  • Most

• When I started out playing small clubs, you could feel the room recoil from certain kinds of songs. Anything that was too personal, that had a sentiment to it, or was laying out your feelings, was immediately booed. People would start throwing things. And anything that was really provocative or humorous or radical was embraced or cheered.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Small
  • Start

• Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.

  

  Jack Warner
  • Think
  • Like
  • Jews

• People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

  

  Ina Garten
  • People
  • Home
  • Fun

• I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Believe
  • Game
  • I Believe

• Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Believe
  • True
  • Faith

• Where theory lags behind the facts, we are dealing with miserable degenerating research programmes.

  

  Imre Lakatos

• Wisdom for the Soul of Black Folk by Larry Chang, Gnosophia Publishers, Roderick Terry

  

  Alex Rodriguez
  • Soul
  • Black
  • Wisdom

• Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

  

  Luis Alberto Urrea
  • People

• 'Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.'

  

  James Wolfe

• Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.

  

  Phil Knight
  • Time
  • Work
  • Family

• I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • World
  • Work
  • Worlds

• I use my Bionic flat iron and hair dryer, all shampoo and conditioners are sulfate free, and keep the blow-drys to a minimum. If I can go two to three or even four days without washing my hair, I'll just go for it. I know, sounds gross, but otherwise, I'd be frying my hair.

  

  Edy Ganem
  • Free
  • Hair
  • Blow

• Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?

  

  Bill Gates
  • Work
  • Programming
  • Bugs