Bill Gates Quotes

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

Bill Gates

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• You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Writing
  • Judging
  • Surprise

• I generally try and have great days, because I feel very lucky to be doing what I'm doing.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Great
  • Doing
  • Lucky

• Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Real
  • Way
  • First

• Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Believe
  • Persons

• I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Work

• By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts, and exchanges. The financing of all public enterprises, the maintenance of stable government and ordered progress, and the conduct of the Treasury will become matters of practical administration. The people can and will be furnished with a currency as safe as their own government.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Government
  • Exchange
  • Adopting

• The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Shadow

• Most films I've worked on have had large casts, but they've been wonderful people. I think the monkey in Pirates of the Caribbean is the most temperamental costar I've had. It would throw tantrums like you wouldn't believe.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• If the white man ain't the devil, he's been aiming at the history of the Americans.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • History
  • Americans
  • White Man

• Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.

  

  Don Felder The Eagles
  • Way
  • Ride
  • Heavy-Metal

• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Girl
  • Deserves
  • Brave Man

• There's more to a picture than meets the eye.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Picture

• Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Progress
  • Effect
  • Institutions

• Jon Krakauer had documented it very accurately and very well but this kid made a real impression on people, and likewise they on him. To talk to them was very moving in many cases because they talk about him like they saw him yesterday. In most cases they knew this kid for a couple of weeks in their whole life and he just lasted with them.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Couple

• As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

  

  Tommy Lee Jones
  • Actors
  • Scene
  • Shots

• The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Life
  • Art
  • Tragedies

• Creative drives our business; the business doesn't drive the creative.

  

  Nina Tassler
  • Business
  • Creative
  • Drive

• I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Newspapers
  • Treats
  • Diseases

• This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.

  

  George F. R. Ellis
  • Brain
  • Physics
  • Concepts

• My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Biology
  • Diseases
  • Fascination