“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
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Bill Gates
“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”
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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
“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
“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.”
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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 really 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
“So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important.”
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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
“I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”
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Bill Gates
“In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not...”
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Bill Gates
“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
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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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
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
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Bill Gates
