Bill Gates Quotes
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me.
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't feel like it, instead of running away from it. Sometimes good work needs to be earned, and when you can overcome yourself, the muse notices and celebrates.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I find humor to be the most attractive characteristic, but I certainly won't cancel anything out, considering when you love someone you love someone, and sometimes you just can't explain it.
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If I weren't a Jew (in the sense in which I use the word) then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.
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It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
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Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.
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I love Italian food.
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A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
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There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
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From the Berlin tenement reform law of 1897 to H. P. Berlage's plan for Amsterdam South of 1917, designers and theorists in Germany and Holland moved toward the development of a perimeter residential block that would preserve the plastic continuity of the street while opening up the resultant courtyard for use as an enclosed semi-public space.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.
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I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.
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If tolerance is the best we can do in this moment, then by all means let's be tolerant. But by stopping there, by merely tolerating each other, we miss so much.
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I've come to a view that humans will continue to do what we do well, and that computers will continue to do what they do very well, and the two will coexist, but in different spaces.
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The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.
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Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.
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Individual income can grow only as fast as productivity rises.
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You may think having a cluttered desk isn't that big of a deal. But that couldn't be further from the truth. Disorganization can stunt your professional growth and decrease your productivity.
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Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.
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In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
