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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. -- Dave Barry
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. -- Robert Metcalfe
I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates. -- Marc Almond
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. -- Max Lerner
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build. -- Larry Ellison
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. -- Anthony Michael Hall
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. -- John Lubbock
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Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. -- Homer
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. -- Alexandre Dumas
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
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. -- E. M. Forster
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life. -- George W. Bush
To me, Arnold was a pioneer in the spirit of Thomas Edison or Benjamin Franklin, while Tiger is a pioneer in the spirit of Bill Gates. -- Mark McCormack
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. -- Stewart Alsop
So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided. -- Ted Nelson
I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. -- Martin Luther
Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.' -- Max Planck
Good intentions can often lead to unintended consequences. It is hard to imagine a law intended for the workforce known to Henry Ford can serve the needs of a workplace shaped by the innovations of Bill Gates. -- Tim Walberg
If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science; try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. -- will.i.am
Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. -- Imelda Marcos
If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates. -- Bill Gates
I salute you as the Gates of Death -- Aeschyluslus
In a world without fences, who needs Gates? -- Scott McNealy
There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden. -- Bob Dylan
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. -- Benjamin Rush
I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous -- David Bradley
Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. -- William Blake
I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates -- Tamim Iqbal
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ? -- Dino Esposito
If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window. -- Chris Rock
If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it. -- will.i.am
If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion -- Dennis Miller
There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates -- Chuck Peddle
Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.' "? Sundown -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. -- Steve Wozniak
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. -- John Podhoretz
Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people). -- Ralph Nader
Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. -- Larry Ellison
'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. -- Chuck Palahniuk
At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. -- Chuck Palahniuk
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? -- James Lipton
If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part? -- Jayceon Terrell Taylor
I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell. -- Shirley Knight
Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. -- Anatoly Chubais
I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. -- Jon Heder
Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. -- Erik Naggum
In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. -- Thomas Friedman
I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get. -- Scott Adams
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. -- Kavita Ramdas
Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. -- Jeff Goodell
Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. -- Simon Blackburn
I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect. -- Masayoshi Son
I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt ... -- Dave Barry
...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... -- John Geddes
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) -- Thomas Jefferson
When I buy Windows 98, I'm not only buying something useful, I'm giving money to Bill Gates, which is a really good thing. -- Penn Jillette
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. -- Steve Jobs
The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in? -- Jim Gaffigan
I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so. -- John Battelle
Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie. -- Dennis Miller
Bill Gates can't control a high-level-energy dog, because his energy is very low, very calm. Very intellectual. A dog doesn't see that as leadership. -- Cesar Millan
Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger. -- Arundhati Roy
Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer, only I know that. -- Gary Kildall
No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. -- Jim Clark
Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing. -- Robert Kiyosaki
No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity.- Through the Gates of the Silver Key -- H. P. Lovecraft
There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Yes, we worship the idea of the "self-made man" - otherwise we'd go on strike against Bill Gates having all that money! We worship that idea. -- James Hillman
As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden. -- Bob Dylan
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. (Or, sometimes known by] Grove [the head of Intel] giveth and Gates [the head of Microsoft] taketh away.) -- Niklaus Wirth
When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix. -- Mark Hart
It was like seeing Bill Gates at age thirteen, times two. And half of him was wearing a cheerleader uniform. Yes, I know that's a weird image. -- Jordan Sonnenblick
Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his. -- Jackie Mason
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy. -- Jeff Goodell
At Microsoft, they all rock back and forth like Gates, they wear the same glasses, they have the same hair style. Maybe they grow them in tanks. -- Marc Andreessen
Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world. -- Judy Collins
John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives. -- Barack Obama
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. -- Stewart Alsop
The indecisiveness and ambivalence so devastatingly described by both of Obama's previous secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta and Bob Gates, are already beginning to characterize the Syria campaign. -- Charles Krauthammer
Why not Bill Gates for president? There are so many businesses' that empower charities. How many men give away all their money to charities? Why not them for President? -- will.i.am
I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business. -- Andy Rooney
Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. -- Ben Carson
Even if you're Bill Gates, you've got problems. I'm sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has. -- Ben Carson
When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.' -- John Fogerty
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort. -- Foster Friess
Amazons Jeff Bezos, Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort. -- Foster Friess
Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names. -- Robert Hormats
Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence. -- Larry Ellison
The hugely popular Windows 95 operating system revolutionized the software world thanks to its capability of accomplishing the seemingly impossible task of making Bill Gates even richer than he already was. -- Dave Barry
We have been through a period where we see power leaching away from Washington. Who is more important in the world today: Bill Clinton or Bill Gates? I don't know. -- Peter Jennings
We felt that the Gates Foundation looked at our track record and our publications and decided that "this is persuasive; this needs to be done. Let's see what they can do." -- Ruth Simmons
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Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations. -- Willow Bay
An international team of psychiatrists has flown to Redmond, WA in an attempt to discover exactly what makes Bill Gates tick. And, more especially, what makes him go cuckoo every half hour. -- David Pogue
I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries. -- Kenneth Rogoff
I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility. -- Anthony Michael Hall
One of the things I liked about playing Tony Gates in 'Line of Duty' was that I don't think he gave much thought to justifying his actions until he was under investigation. -- Lennie James
I had e-mail in 1984! I had an e-mail address then, which means that all you could write to was Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. There were three of us, writing to each other. -- Penn Jillette
Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did. -- Nolan Bushnell
There's a lot of money being generated by nerds right now. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, the list goes on and on. Nerds make more money than our government. And with money comes power. -- Chris Hardwick
For instance, in 1999, Bill Gates not only published a new book on work at the speed of thought but also detailed how Microsoft's 'Falconview' software would enable the destruction of bridges in Kosovo. -- Paul Virilio
I suggested that someone grab Bill Gates and get him to install a new operating system, but apparently he's not a demon" At Reaver's eye roll she nodded. "Right? I was surprised too. -- Larissa Ione
I had a great time working on 'The Gates,' and that was my first real experience doing supernatural television, working with the special effects and everything that goes into making a supernatural show. -- Skyler Samuels
A single charitable foundation started by one capitalist does more good than a world full of socialists and leftists. Think Carnegie and his libraries, or Sloan and Kettering their hospital, or Gates in Africa. -- James Cook
I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont. -- Dave Barry
Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop. -- Ruchi Sanghvi
They said these North Korean missiles had enough range to hit Seattle, but residents in Seattle were not worried. Today Bill Gates said Microsoft has enough missiles to destroy North Korea ten times over. -- Jay Leno
Bill Gates, who is the classic computer nerd, as opposed to Steve who is, like the coolest guy in the world. And who is really doing things to make the world a better place? -- Alex Gibney
I asked Secretary [Robert] Gates, what did they get in return for giving up the nuclear shield of Poland and the Czech Republic? And you know what his answer was? Nada. They got nothing. -- Rudy Giuliani
Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world. -- Steve Ballmer
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I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff. -- William Gibson
Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft? -- Greg Giraldo
I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home. -- Will Smith
My current computer, in addition to 'DOS,' has 'Windows,' which is another invention of Bill Gates, designed as a security measure to thwart those users who are somehow able to get past DOS. -- Dave Barry
I actually think Bill Gates is conventionally smarter, even though it's a dumb word, but mental processing power - I've watched him use four different screens, process information, get to the right answer, boom boom boom. -- Walter Isaacson

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