Quotes 41 till 60 of 105.
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It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
Source: USAir Magazine, "Bill Gates: The Importance of Making Mistakes", July 1995, p. 48 -
It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
Source: Interview with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz in 80 Microcomputing -
It's possible, you can never know, that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
Source: TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) -
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
Source: TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) -
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
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Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
Source: "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx -
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment.
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
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Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.
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Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero.
Source: "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html -
Often you have to rely on intuition.
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Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
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People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
Source: Interview from Programmers at Work -
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Source: Watchtower ONLINE LIBRARY -
Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
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Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
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Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes.
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