Bill Gates Quotes
It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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Terrorism is a horrible thing that is the great threat to civilization on our planet.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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I've never had an organization come to me and say, 'Eventually, we're going to take care of you. I've never had anyone say, 'I'm going to take care of you.' Why shouldn't I be happy? That's a first for me in 17 years.
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I think if I'm serious about affecting people with music, I have to affect people on a human to human level, not on a grand social idea or political idea, it has to be a human being idea so it has to be what's inside a human being.
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
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To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
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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.
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The Crawfords played everywhere, in every ballpark. And we won, won like we invented the game.
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If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating.
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It’s been proven that of all the interventions to reduce poverty, improving agricultural productivity is the best.
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I like everyone who tries to show that madness is, in large part, conditioned by society and particularly by the family, and therefore, strongly affects women.
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I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?
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Albania does not feel alone. It is part of the Partnership for Peace structures in NATO, and it will do what it can within that.
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Microsoft unapologetically will make sure ActiveX works best on Windows.
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Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity. ... The geniuses of the computer field, on the the other hand, are the people with the keenest aesthetic senses, the ones who are capable of creating beauty. Beauty is decisive at every level: the most important interfaces, the most important programming languages, the winning algorithms are the beautiful ones.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda Gates and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.
