“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
“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
“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
“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
“I studied every thing but never topped.... But today the toppers of the best universities are my employees”
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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
“The world today has 6.8 billion people. That's heading up to about nine billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care & reproductive health services, we could LOWER that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”
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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
“in china when you're one in a million, there are 1300 people just like you”
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Bill Gates
“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.”
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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
“Don't compare yourself with anyone in this world...if you do so, you are insulting yourself.”
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Bill Gates
