“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”
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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
“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
“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.”
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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
“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
“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
“Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy”
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Bill Gates
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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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
“if u are born poor then it's not your mistake but if u die poor then it is your mistake”
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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