Bill Gates Quotes
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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The only way anyone's going to succeed is to build the product.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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Over half of the traffic that flows over our networks is coming from video. As you think about a business that is going to be video centric and video focused, you want to have scale on the video programming side to be able to take advantage of this.
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People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.
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I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.
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I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.
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Every state that addresses climate change emboldens the others, just as shifting public attitudes embolden politicians and, arguably, the court system.
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If you've been massive and it's all slid away, you tend to get written off. It's quite difficult to overcome that, which is why I've got this problem with nostalgia.
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Will I be coming to you as husband or a child? A partner or a student?
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I don't have a feeling of inferiority. Never had. I'm as good as anybody, but no better.
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When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum.
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People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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Predictably, open markets made it possible for countries to drive rapid growth by hitching their wagon to the world economy and using global demand to pull people and resources out of subsistence activities into more productive work.
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There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
