Quotation Wednesday – The Bill Gates Edition
by the messy optimist
“I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars, there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that. ‘But once you get much beyond that, I have to tell you, it’s the same hamburger.”
“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn’t have tenure.”
“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.”
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.”
“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
“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.”
“If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.”
“The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.”
“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.”
“You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.”
