Bill Gates Quotes
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Quotes to Explore
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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We have heard time and time again in the course of our work how talking can help heal the hidden challenges we can't deal with alone.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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We hire military veterans because they make great employees. They bring proven technical and leadership skills. They understand teamwork, and they're adaptable. Bottom line, hiring veterans is good for business.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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It's very tempting to have a nanny and live in a gated community and have a chef - I'd love to have a few dinners cooked for me. But I don't want that for my children. When they're older, if people say to them, 'Did you have a chef?' I want them to be shocked by the question.
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The train system in India is chaotic and fun - it's the best way to see the landscape. Being in with all the families and also being the odd animal is a colourful experience you'll never forget.
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Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.
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Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
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We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!
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Once we agree on the future, the present will be much easier. A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there. We have first to decide where we want to go, where we want to sail.
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Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.
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I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.
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A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.
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While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.
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There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.
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I am not opposed to the art market. I have lots of friends who are collectors. But the whole idea of the art market is complex. Sadly we have a situation where auction houses and secondary market dealers are creating a lot of confusion and unnecessary pollution.
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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
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When I was at Tek, I was frustrated that computer hardware was being improved faster than computer software. I wanted to invent some software that was completely different, that would grow and change as it was used. That’s how wiki came about.
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One principle problem of educating software engineers is that they will not use a new method until they believe it works and, more importantly, that they will not believe the method will work until they see it for themselves.
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Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
