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.

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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.

  

  Karen Carpenter The Carpenters
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Good
  • Work
  • Running

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Find
  • Humor
  • Explain

• 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.

  

  Marc Chagall

• Because contemporary paganism is essentially so new, its underlying ethical structure is not particularly sophisticated.

  

  Liz Williams

• It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Character
  • Job

• Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.

  

  Princess Diana
  • Long

• I love Italian food.

  

  Jaleel White
  • Food
  • Italian

• A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

  

  John C. Maxwell

• 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.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• 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.

  

  Kenneth Frampton
  • Up
  • Law
  • Space

• My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

  

  Amber Tamblyn
  • Age
  • Father
  • Sad

• Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Different
  • Superman
  • Batman

• I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support.

  

  John Buchan
  • Support
  • Atheist

• 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.

  

  John Wesley Shipp
  • Tolerance

• 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.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Different

• The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Live
  • Country

• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Important
  • Trying

• Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

  

  Katherine Parkinson
  • Life
  • Missing

• Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Productivity

• In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Productivity