“Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.”
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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
“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”
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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
“Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.”
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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