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Bill Gates
(28 Oct 1955 - )
American businessman who dropped out of Harvard University, yet cofounded Microsoft, a computer software company whose business practices were at times ruled to be anti-competive in several court battles.
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Science Quotes by Bill Gates (8 quotes)
Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it’s just a tie.
— Bill Gates
From interview (24 May 2004) in Scientific American (Jun 2004), 45.
Hey, size works against excellence.
— Bill Gates
Upside (Apr 1992). Quoted in Thomas J. Peters, Liberation Management: Necessary Disorganization for the Nanosecond Nineties (1992), 554.
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, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
— Bill Gates
PBS interview with David Frost (Nov 1995). In Lisa Rogak (ed.) The Impatient Optimist - Bill Gates in his Words (2012), 107.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
— Bill Gates
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that’s why they, as a whole—they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
— Bill Gates
NPR Radio interview, Morning Edition, (29 Apr 2005). In Lisa Rogak (ed.) The Impatient Optimist: Bill Gates in his Words (2012), 32.
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci imagined a flying machine, but it took the methodical application of science by those two American bicycle mechanics to create it.
— Bill Gates
In Time/CBS News, 'The Wright Brothers, People of the Century (1999), 42.
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
— Bill Gates
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To be a good professional engineer, always start to study late for exams. Because it teaches you how to manage time and tackle emergencies.
— Bill Gates
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Quotes by others about Bill Gates (2)
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.
There never was a chip, it is said, that Bill Gates couldn’t slow down with a new batch of features.
In The Chicago Tribune (1 Feb 1998).
See also:
- 28 Oct - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Gates's birth.
- Bill Gates: Hero or Villain?, by Michael Lancaster. - book suggestion.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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