Bill Gates Quotes

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.

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• What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Best

• Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Man
  • Moral

• If we come to the conclusion after 90 days that the synergies are big enough to justify the efforts, then we can go to the second step, which consists of saying: what would be the best organization and conditions - including shareholdings - in order to make sure the synergies happen.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Best
  • Organization
  • Step

• I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Like
  • Being
  • Just

• It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Think
  • Focus
  • Reason

• What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Growing
  • Change
  • Communication

• A Frenchman must be always talking, whether he knows anything of the matter or not; an Englishman is content to say nothing, when he has nothing to say.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• On 2006 Israel-Lebanese war '..the net result is you have an Israeli government in disarray and a United States administration so identified with Israeli failure right now that it hurts the United States around the world.'

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • War
  • Failure

• Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Work
  • Reality

• I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Business
  • Song
  • Singing

• I think the 'New York Times' reviews overall tend to overlook popular fiction, whether you're a man, woman, white, black, purple or pink. I think there are a lot of readers who would like to see reviews that belong in the range of commercial fiction.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • Black
  • Popular
  • Pink

• Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Why
  • Free

• 'Eastern Promises' is great.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Great

• Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

  

  Billy Crudup

• I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Why

• Yes, it's important to make things great, and you can certainly do this by upgrading over time, but good and profitable is better than perfect and never done.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

  

  Lena Dunham

• I didn't know my mother had it. I think a lot of women don't know their mothers had it; that's the sad thing about depression. You know, you don't function anymore. You shut down. You feel like you are in a void.

  

  Marie Osmond
  • Women
  • Mother
  • Sad

• I wasn't really interested in doing television. I don't have that much ambition. My agent, Eileen Feldman, has all the ambition for me.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Ambition

• Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Couple

• The people with whom I've worked in the Special Operations community are more concerned with an individual's contribution to the team, and their ability to do their job exceptionally well, than their race or sexual preferences.

  

  Brandon Webb
  • People
  • Job
  • Team

• If you eat a lot of starchy foods, introduce a vegetable once a week, then twice a week, and then three times a week. Slowly fill your diet with new flavors. By the time you're ready to let go of whatever it is you want to let go of, you've got a full menu.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Diet
  • Foods

• Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas at risk.

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • Risk
  • Ocean