Bill Gates Quotes
Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to find out how to become the character.
-
As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
-
Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
-
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
-
I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
-
I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
-
My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
-
My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
-
The way to really scale a venture firm is with software.
-
I'm sentimental about many things: the lumpy feel of a baby's unused feet, the metallic smell of the air before the first snow, the last scene in 'It's a Wonderful Life.' But Valentine's Day leaves me cold.
-
I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
-
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
-
I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
-
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
-
I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
-
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
-
And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
-
I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.
-
Engineering does not require science. Science helps a lot but people built perfectly good brick walls long before they knew why cement works.
-
I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.
-
My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.
-
You gotta call it out first; it always has to be called out when we need social change, but this is how social change happens: you call it out. People had to call out child labor. People had to call out, 'Hey time's up; we need to vote. We live in this country.' People had to call out 'time's up' on enslaving people, you know.
-
Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
