“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
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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
“I failed in some subjects in exam, but my friend passed in all. Now he is an engineer in Microsoft and I am the owner of Microsoft.”
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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
“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
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Bill Gates
“Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.”
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Bill Gates
“Well, I went for a ride but I didn't find my car”
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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
“If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.”
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Bill Gates
“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”
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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
“Life is not fair get used to used to it”
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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
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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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
