Bill Gates Quotes

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Bill Gates

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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Hamilton Jordan
- Real
- Why
- Feeling
I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

Nate Silver
- Trying
- Anything
- Tricky
I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

I. M. Pei
- People
- Friends
- Thought
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

Bebe Neuwirth
- Life
- Stage
- Performer
It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

Adam Brody
- Life
- Important
- Career
I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Yael Naim
- Think
- Famous
- Paris