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- (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child…
- I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather…
- About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they…
- In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will.
- If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
- I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine,…
- Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
- You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very…
- I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.
- You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.
- People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think…
- Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders…
- Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
- I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
- Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make…
- Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a…
- I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.
- Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the
- China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives…
- Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in…
- Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster