Bill Gates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.
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You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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We should reserve the notion of 'morality' for the ways in which we can affect one another's experience for better or worse. Some people use the term 'morality' differently, of course, but I think we have a scientific responsibility to focus the conversation so as to make it most useful.
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I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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People say McGregor is tall and all that. He's as tall as I am, or maybe even shorter. He might have a longer reach, but I've fought Nate Diaz and Cerrone, who had reach advantage, and fought Anthony Pettis and Ben Henderson.
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I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. … When it was fashionable to say, 'May the Force be with you,' I always said, 'Force yourself.' … I'll say again then, 'The Force is within you. Force yourself.'
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We Americans choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
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I go to an all-Hawaiian school, and we learn everything about being Hawaiian. We have a really deep respect for the water and the land. We say, 'mauka to makai,' mountains to ocean. I believe if you take care of the ocean, the ocean will take care of you in return.
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At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
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There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
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The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
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I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.
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Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything.
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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing.
