“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
“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
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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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
“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
“I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it”
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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
“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
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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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
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
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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
“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