Bill Gates Quotes

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

Bill Gates

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• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Wealth
  • Glory
  • Eternal

• Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Pain
  • Makes
  • Chicken

• I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Going
  • Places
  • Where

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Basketball

• 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.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Live
  • Love
  • Community

• 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.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Experience
  • Fun
  • Best

• The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Play

• I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Friend
  • Day

• I don't think that left to its own devices, capitalism moves along smoothly and everyone gets treated fairly in the process. Capitalism is like a child: if you want the child to grow up free and productive, somebody's got to look over the shoulder of that child.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Up
  • Free
  • Child

• There's something healing about tears.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Tears
  • Something
  • Healing

• I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Problem
  • Opinion
  • Yourself

• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Wise

• I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Dumb

• Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Young
  • Economic

• When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • My Life

• I'd made enough made money by the time I was 12 to never work again, so it's not about a big pay check with me.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Time
  • Work
  • Money

• I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.

  

  Danzy Senna
  • People
  • Writing
  • Novel

• You fall over, you get up again.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Fall
  • Get Up

• First of all, we have infrastructure as a service, which Amazon has; we have platform as a service, which Microsoft has; we have software as a service; we have applications. Nobody has everything except us. We also have data as a service.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Service
  • Software
  • Data

• Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Software
  • Airline
  • Reservation system

• Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Politics
  • Washington
  • My Father

• I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Washington
  • Software
  • Radar screen