“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
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Bill Gates
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
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Bill Gates
“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”
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Bill Gates
“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
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Bill Gates
“I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.”
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Bill Gates
“Life is not fair get used to used to it”
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Bill Gates
“The vision is about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on so they can do a lot more than they've done in the past”
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Bill Gates
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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Bill Gates
“I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”
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Bill Gates
“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”
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Bill Gates
“The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.”
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Bill Gates
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
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Bill Gates
“There’s no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. It’s like saying that as of 1932, cars didn’t have radios in them, so they should never have radios in them.”
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Bill Gates
“Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.”
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Bill Gates
“Well, Steve [Jobs]… I think it’s more like we both had this rich neighbour named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.”
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Bill Gates
