“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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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
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.”
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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
“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
“Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.”
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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
“Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.”
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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
“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
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
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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
“Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.”
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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
