“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
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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
“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
“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
“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
“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.”
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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
“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
“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”
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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
“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 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
“If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected.”
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Bill Gates
