The Gates Quotes

#1. The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

Bill Gates

#2. a sinner is pleading to Saint Peter at the Pearly Gates: "Wait, those weren't lies," the sinner says. "That was spin!

Mark Leibovich

#3. I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.

Richie Allen

#4. Bill Gates says, 'Wait till you can see what your computer can become.' But it's you who should be doing the becoming. What you can become is the miracle you were born to work-not the damn fool computer.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

Martin Sheen

#6. It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Virgil

#7. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Bill Gates

#8. The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points
his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

Thomas Paine

#9. The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

Bill Gates

#10. I can understand wanting to have a million dollars but once you get beyond that, I have to tell you, it's the same hamburger.

Bill Gates

#11. They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Daryl Gates

#12. The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

Theaster Gates

#13. We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henry Louis Gates

#14. Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

Bill Gates

#15. For the love of the gods, Lorenzo. Just kill the man."

I grinned even as a struggled to pull my arm free from his jaws. "Yes, dear.

Ellis Leigh

#16. Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.

Gareth Gates

#17. We cannot bear for our most mysterious experiences to remain unexplained. I've therefore learned ... that every story has worth, since a person takes the time to tell it. The key is to listen.

Josh Gates

#18. The ones that hate you most tend to be the people you know

Kevin Gates

#19. If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.

Robert M. Gates

#20. The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite.

Bill Gates

#21. In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.

Bill Gates

#22. My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

Bill Gates

#23. It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Henry Louis Gates

#24. The microprocessor is a miracle.

Bill Gates

#25. Pray that, above all things, the gates of light may be opened to you; for these things cannot be perceived or understood by all, but only by the man to whom God and his Christ have imparted wisdom (Dial. 7, 3).

Pope Benedict XVI

#26. As a parent, the responsible thing to do - if you love your child - is to vaccinate your child.

Melinda Gates

#27. The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

Bill Gates

#28. We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

Daryl Gates

#29. Dr. King's Nobel Prize had a more powerful transforming effect on him than I think he realized at the time.

Henry Louis Gates

#30. Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Henry Louis Gates

#31. That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

Alice Hoffman

#32. And for the first time he understood. What temptation meant. It stood before him, made flesh and wit and intellect and desire, making its simple offer of everything, unstoppable and consuming for all it's unconditional generosity.

Olivia Gates

#33. Microsoft certainly makes products for the Macintosh.

Melinda Gates

#34. The first step toward tolerance is respect and the first step toward respect is knowledge.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

#35. There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go.

Bill Gates

#36. I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested.

Bill Gates

#37. I don't see anybody," he whispered to the two figures behind him. "No gates or locks, neither. Do you think maybe they're using invisible barriers or something?

G. Norman Lippert

#38. Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Bill Gates

#39. Our role is to stand behind the open gates and turn them back one by one. And so we fight.

Cassandra Clare

#40. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.

Swami Vivekananda

#41. Grace is false, and beauty is vain. A woman who fears God - she is praised. Give to her of the fruit of her hands, and her deeds will praise her at the gates.

Jonathan Kellerman

#42. In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how well you're doing in your education system.

Bill Gates

#43. It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

Bill Gates

#44. Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

Robert M. Gates

#45. Don't carry your ideas to the grave untouched.

Israelmore Ayivor

#46. I had no difficulty as Secretary of Defense moving from the Bush administration to the Obama administration.

Robert M. Gates

#47. My laird, two riders are at the front gates and insist to speak with only ye. They also have a woman traveling with them.

Victoria Roberts

#48. Tallish. Check. Built like a bull. Check. Were there tingles in her downstairs department? Mmhmm. Check. Her pearly gates had gone into override and the doors were ready to burst open.

Cari Silverwood

#49. The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Bill Gates

#50. I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

Henry Louis Gates

#51. Our grandparents' generation never expected too much out of life and, paradoxically, were happier for it. It never occurred to my granddad that he would enjoy work. He hated it from the day he walked through the factory gates at 14 to when he left at 65.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#52. Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

#53. The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

Bill Gates

#54. A few years ago, Bill Gates was boasting that we'll soon have sensors which will turn on the music that we like or show on the walls the paintings we like when we walk into a room. How boring! The hell with our preexisting likes; let's expand ourselves intellectually.

Denis Dutton

#55. Rat #1 got you through the gates, didn't it?" said Anadil, stroking the still-pooped pet in her pocket. "Rat #2 gets you to the tower."
"And Rat #3 negotiates world peace?

Soman Chainani

#56. The Notebook ... that's my favorite one. I've read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love.

Kevin Gates

#57. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

#58. I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need.

Bill Gates

#59. Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.

Bill Gates

#60. It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy.

Bill Gates

#61. Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven ...

SebastiAn

#62. I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Theaster Gates

#63. Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact.

Bill Gates

#64. I remember in 1980 or 1981 looking at a list of people who had made a lot of money in the computer industry and thinking, Wow, that's amazing. But I never thought I'd be on that list. It's clear I was wrong. I'm on the list, at least temporarily.

Bill Gates

#65. The energy in the daytime is so different because everyone is so unhappy and depressed and you can pick up on that energy psychokinetically. So I like to come out at night. Everything's settled, you can see more.

Kevin Gates

#66. A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

Bill Gates

#67. I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Bill Gates

#68. Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.

Bill Gates

#69. The precise form of an individual's activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity.

Henry Louis Gates

#70. It is hard to sell Congress and the American people on foreign aid. Is it harder to do that than it is to sell billionaires on the idea that they should give all their money away.

Bill Gates

#71. Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Bill Gates

#72. We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

Henry Louis Gates

#73. There are a variety of techniques for breaking software down into pieces and making software development more efficient. Many of these techniques have been sort of ... and everybody got excited about but very little benefit was actually derived once the thing was put into practice.

Bill Gates

#74. People who say they don't see the acceleration of innovation is a wilful blindness. We are innovation at a wonderful speed for the basic things we think everyone should get.

Bill Gates

#75. With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case.

Bill Gates

#76. At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.

Bill Gates

#77. Where do real conversations about citizenship occur? In our schools. Think about the things you learned in first grade. "My Country 'Tis of Thee," "I pledge allegiance to the flag," "America the Beautiful."

Henry Louis Gates

#78. The most successful people in American life are those that have had horrific failures and have come back, done it again and again until they got it right, whether it's Steve Jobs or Bill Gates or Warren Buffet.

Frank Luntz

#79. 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

#80. On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large display area, you'll never go back, because it has a direct impact on productivity.

Bill Gates

#81. The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Bill Gates

#82. In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

Neal Stephenson

#83. If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It starts to balance out.

Bill Gates

#84. The most impactful dollars that Australia can spend are actually what goes to help the poorest.

Bill Gates

#85. And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

John Milton

#86. Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future.

Bill Gates

#87. Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education.

Bill Gates

#88. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Bill Gates

#89. The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Bill Gates

#90. The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Bill Gates

#91. So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets ...

Oscar Wilde

#92. The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

Jacques Maritain

#93. Without education and understanding, the barbarians would have outnumbered us and swarmed the city gates a long time ago.

Peter F. Hamilton

#94. Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.

Bill Gates

#95. The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

Henry Louis Gates

#96. We are out-of-the-gates strong in fiscal 2015. We grew revenue 8% in the first quarter and exceeded our QuickBooks Online subscriber and our company financial targets.

Brad D. Smith

#97. I am inspired by the women I meet everywhere I go. They have to work so hard just to make sure their families survive, but somehow they stay optimistic and do everything in their power to make the future better than the past.

Melinda Gates

#98. I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.

Bill Gates

#99. When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation.

Bill Gates

#100. Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.

Bill Gates