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

• That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Love
  • Costs

• I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.

  

  Kit Williams
  • Bored

• We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • Up
  • Control
  • Environment

• Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Creativity
  • Productivity

• Our minds must relax: they will rise better and keener after rest. Just as you must not force fertile farmland, as uninterrupted productivity will soon exhaust it, so constant effort will sap our mental vigour, while a short period of rest and relaxation will restore our powers. Unremitting effort leads to a kind of mental dullness and lethargy.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Effort

• 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