Quotes about Gates

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. Votes: 6

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. Votes: 4

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates. Votes: 4

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck. Votes: 4

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope. Votes: 4

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who is going to build. Votes: 4

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates. Votes: 4

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven. Votes: 4

I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute. Votes: 4

Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. Votes: 4

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. Votes: 4

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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.' Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I salute you as the Gates of Death Votes: 3

In a world without fences, who needs Gates? Votes: 3

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden. Votes: 3

The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Votes: 3

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous Votes: 3

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise. Votes: 3

I was the happiest man in the world, happier than Bill Gates Votes: 3

In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ? Votes: 3

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window. Votes: 3

If Bill Gates left Microsoft we wouldn't allow Donald Trump to run it. Votes: 3

If Bill Gates is worth $30 billion then a good haircut must cost $31 billion Votes: 3

There's nothing nice about Steve Jobs and there's nothing evil about Bill Gates Votes: 3

Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.' "“ Sundown Votes: 3

Bill Gates did predict that computers for people made sense because he wrote a basic. Votes: 3

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. Votes: 3

Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people). Votes: 3

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build. Votes: 3

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. Votes: 3

At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose. Votes: 3

If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Votes: 3

If Dr. King marched today, would Bill Gates march? I know Obama would, but would Hillary take part? Votes: 3

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell. Votes: 3

Bill Gates finds people in Russia to hire them to Microsoft. That's the Russian interest in this process. Votes: 3

I just did an ad with Microsoft. I'm dressed as Napoleon, and I get to slap Bill Gates. Votes: 3

Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it. Votes: 3

In China today, Bill Gates is Britney Spears. In America today, Britney Spears is Britney Spears-and that is our problem. Votes: 3

I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get. Votes: 3

With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. Votes: 3

Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change. Votes: 3

Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything. Votes: 3

I don't like accidental success. It's what Bill Gates calls 'random,' a term he uses with the opposite of respect. Votes: 3

I watched as an extremely nerdy exhibitor - I'm talking about a guy who makes Bill Gates look like Brad Pitt ... Votes: 3

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.... Votes: 3

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger. Votes: 3

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in? Votes: 3

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow. Votes: 3

Bill Gates has become the patron saint of philanthropy and the poster child of rebirth, and from what I can tell, rightly so. Votes: 3

Bill Gates is just a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being one of the bad guys in a James Bond movie. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.) Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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." Votes: 3

Sure.” Olivia smirked. “Good ol’ New York Public Library. I’m sure it’s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum. Votes: 3

Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail: The Tale of the Three Gates is a look at humankind's relationship to the elements which surround them. Oftentimes, these elements encroach on them in a way that is not normal. Votes: 3

I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold. Votes: 3

The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision. Votes: 3

I have not visited America as of now. However, I would love to come to the United States, for two reasons. Firstly, I would like to pay a visit to Disneyland. Secondly, I would like to meet Bill Gates. Votes: 3

Oprah is rich; Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out of a ... window and slit his throat on the way down saying, 'I can't even put gas in my plane!' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The next Bill Gates will not start an operating system. The next Larry Page won't start a search engine. The next Mark Zuckerberg won't start a social network company. If you are copying these people, you are not learning from them. Votes: 3

I give Bill Gates an A for vision because, as a business person and a strategist, he's brilliant. His flaw is that his view is not informed by a humanistic or compassionate vision of how to make computers work for people. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I read slave narratives, books like Bullwhip Days, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. [The Root's chairman] Henry Louis Gates has an amazing documentary called Many Rivers to Cross - really, his whole writings; he's such a wealth of knowledge. Votes: 3

Mark Zuckerberg will be a hero to many young entrepreneurs 20 years from now. Bill Gates will be a hero to others, and they will look to those [people] like I read books when I was in my teens about Rockefeller or Carnegie. Votes: 3

The American people ask, and legitimately so, why should we carry the heavy burden to ensure international peace and stability. You also profit from it, so you should also take your share in the burden. That's Secretary Gates's message. I share that message. Votes: 3

As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Votes: 3

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself. Votes: 3

Our practical purpose is to facilitate expansion of service innovations on a larger scale to improve access to, and the quality of reproductive health care. We are very grateful to have received support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to continue our work. Votes: 3

What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution. Votes: 3

When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century. Votes: 3

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading. Votes: 3

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. Votes: 3

Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963, the World War II veteran had been fired as a truck driver for a bakery, after one of his supervisors accused him of harassment. Votes: 3

[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68. Votes: 3

On his Giving Pledge philanthropy: The way I got the message out was to get a copy of FORBES, look down that 400 list and start making phone calls! Bill and Melinda [Gates] did the same thing. So keep publishing the list so I can milk it. Votes: 3

When we think about online learning, it's such 'early days.' Bill Gates is a wildly smart insightful guy. Yet, even a guy as smart and insightful as that, 30 years ago can say things like, 'Who's every going to need more than 640K of memory?' Votes: 3

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate. Votes: 3

If you had the chance to visit paradise or heaven, would you? Are you thinking you'll get another chance later? What if you reach the Pearly Gates, and Saint Peter says, 'Hey, you had plenty of opportunities to spend time in heavenly places down there. Sorry. Votes: 3

... I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it... Votes: 3

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If its coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets? Votes: 3

The concept of minimum wage is crazy, if you really stop to think about it. If $8 an hour seems right, why not $20 an hour? If it's coming by order of the government, why stop at any level? Why not just say everyone should get what Gates gets? Votes: 3

One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates. Votes: 3

My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka. Votes: 3

Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference. Votes: 3

Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made. Votes: 3

Geeks run the world. Condoleezza Rice is a geek, Bill Gates is clearly a geek, many of the big filmmakers and writers are geeks, lots of military people are geeks. Anyone who has heard Donald Rumsfeld talk about military hardware knows they are in the presence of a geek. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Jobs would have ever have asserted that Bill Gates was not serious about technology. He was a huge pioneer in that world, albeit doing something quite different in approach from what Steve did. He was dismissive of Gates' foundation work as something he did to make himself feel better. Votes: 3

The most important thing the giant philanthropies could do - Gates, Rockefeller, Ford, Open Society Institute, and new ones emerging - would be to create a $2-to-$3 billion Trust for Independent Journalism. They wouldn't miss the money, and democracy would still have a fighting chance because of their investment. Votes: 3

As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice... Votes: 3

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence Votes: 3

Whatever he did it drove you away and into my bed and don't you forget that!Tyler Walkers by Kyra Gates Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work. Votes: 3

We [with Bill Gates] started to make decisions about what we'd invest in. Then I actually started traveling for the foundation. I've probably been to India now eight times at least and Africa numerous times. Votes: 3

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?' Votes: 3

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people. Votes: 3

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. Votes: 2

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown Votes: 2

Baghdad is determined to force the Mongols of our age to commit suicide at its gates. Votes: 2

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. Votes: 2

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. Votes: 2

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Votes: 2

The Arabs are ready to accept a strong Israel with nuclear arms - all it has to do is open the gates of its fortress and make peace. Votes: 2

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world. Votes: 2

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. Votes: 2

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. Votes: 2

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. Votes: 2

The biggest start-up successes - from Henry Ford to Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg - were pioneered by people from solidly middle-class backgrounds. These founders were not wealthy when they began. They were hungry for success, but knew they had a solid support system to fall back on if they failed. Votes: 2

Two diverse gates there are of bodiless dreams, These of sawn ivory, and those of horn. Such dreams as issue where the ivory gleams Fly without fate, and turn our hopes to scorn. But dreams which issue through the burnished horn, What man soe'er beholds them on his bed, These work with virtue and of truth are born. Votes: 2

I'm probably wouldn't do anything differently if I had to do it again. Every little thing that happens to you, good and bad, becomes a little piece of the puzzle of who you become. Every successful person you read about - Warren Buffett, Bill Gates - they all say pretty much the same thing. 'Do what you love.' I know I did. Votes: 2

Most prisons have wide gates! Votes: 0

Fire opens the gates of victory. Votes: 0

True love opens the gates of time. Votes: 0

Ideas have unhinged the gates of empires. Votes: 0

Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed Votes: 0

Libraries really are the gates to the future. Votes: 0

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven. Votes: 0

Gigantic, willful, young, Chicago sitteth at the northwest gates. Votes: 0

Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates. Votes: 0

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded? Votes: 0

The gates made of light swing open. You see in. Votes: 0

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. Votes: 0

The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not? Votes: 0

I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell. Votes: 0

When a Lackey comes to hells doore, the devills locke the gates. Votes: 0

Civilizations fall because the people inside the Sanctuary throw open the gates. Votes: 0

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. Votes: 0

Sign over the gates of hell: "Doesn't mean you're a bad person." Votes: 0

A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry. Votes: 0

Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all. Votes: 0

I am at the gates of my own destruction.(Or so I'm told.) Votes: 0

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving. Votes: 0

Schools cannot shut their gates and leave the outside world on the doorstep. Votes: 0

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. Votes: 0

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering. Votes: 0

I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates. Votes: 0

Law of Airlines: The shorter the time between flights, the greater the distance between gates. Votes: 0

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar. Votes: 0

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber Votes: 0

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder! Votes: 0

A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates. Votes: 0

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down. Votes: 0

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. Votes: 0

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large. Votes: 0

Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland. Votes: 0

Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven. Votes: 0

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair. Votes: 0

More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened! Votes: 0

As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death. Votes: 0

Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven... Votes: 0

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. Votes: 0

Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. Votes: 0

Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free. Votes: 0

If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die! Votes: 0

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense. Votes: 0

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ... Votes: 0

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts. Votes: 0

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Votes: 0

But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates. Votes: 0

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery. Votes: 0

Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees. Votes: 0

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. Votes: 0

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open. Votes: 0

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might. Votes: 0

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them. Votes: 0

Too many tongues have gates which fly apart Too easily, and care for many things That don't concern them. Votes: 0

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in. Votes: 0

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind. Votes: 0

Plant spacious parks in your cities, and loose their gates as wide as the morning, to the whole people. Votes: 0

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul. Votes: 0

The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle Votes: 0

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out. Votes: 0

Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever. Votes: 0

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades. Votes: 0

I done been to the pearly gates, they sent me back said the good die young I ain't eligible for that Votes: 0

Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house"”do not pass by like a dream. Votes: 0

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer. Votes: 0

When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot. Votes: 0

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates. Votes: 0

Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap. Votes: 0

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. Votes: 0

The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad... Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. Iraqis are heroes. Votes: 0

Jesus was born again in the pit of hell. .. The church started when Jesus was born again in the gates of hell. .. Votes: 0

I live on the limit, Vyvyan. The limit, because I'm a rider at the gates of dawn and I take no prisoners! Votes: 0

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in. Votes: 0

All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace. Votes: 0

My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc. Votes: 0

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in. Votes: 0

Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. Votes: 0

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only. Votes: 0

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. Votes: 0

We are power. But these are only words if you don't have the personal power to unlock the gates of immortality and of mortality. Votes: 0

It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks? Votes: 0

The gates of monarchs Are arched so high that giants may jet through And keep their impious turbans on without Good morrow to the sun. Votes: 0

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell. Votes: 0

A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world. Votes: 0

An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The gates of thought, - how slow and late they discover themselves! Yet when they appear, we see that they were always there, always open. Votes: 0

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood. Votes: 0

For man's only weapon is courage that flinches not from the gates of Hell itself, and against such not even the legions of Hell can stand. Votes: 0

All what you have to do is to accept, to be bold and open to the world and the world will open it's gates for you. Votes: 0

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish. Votes: 0

Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old? Votes: 0

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids. Votes: 0

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away. Votes: 0

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls. Votes: 0

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us. Votes: 0

I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.' Votes: 0

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates. Votes: 0

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves. Votes: 0

The gates of hell did not prevail before me. They will not prevail after me. The Kingdom, I pray will use me but it doesn't need me. Votes: 0

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight. Votes: 0

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity. Votes: 0

Death when to death a death by death hath given Then shall be op't the long shut gates of heaven. [Mors, mortis morti mortem nisi morte dedisset (dedisses).] Votes: 0

As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of understanding. Votes: 0

Missions is not applied anthropology, comparative religion or sociology. It is storming the gates of hell. It is a power confrontation-h and-to-hand combat with Satan and his demons. Votes: 0

However, when it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no. Votes: 0

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes. Votes: 0

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. Votes: 0

I'm very glad I'm not a politician. I think it's one step away from the gates of hell, being a politician. I really do. It`s a nightmare. Votes: 0

The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here.' Votes: 0

The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it. Votes: 0

Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. Votes: 0

Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them. Votes: 0

I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me. Votes: 0

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates. Votes: 0

At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power. Votes: 0

Sweet Mercy! to the gates of heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflict, the heart riven With vain endeavour, And memory of Earth's bitter leaven Effaced forever. Votes: 0

But the gates of my happy childhood had clanged shut behind me; I had become adult enough to recognize the need to conceal unbearable emotions for the sake of others. Votes: 0

If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer. Votes: 0

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. Votes: 0

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ. Votes: 0

Letters are the real curse of my existence. I hate to write them: I have to. If I don't, there they are - the great guilty gates barring my way. Votes: 0

Love enters only one gates - the spiritual heart opened towards! And then the reciprocal wave of love arises in it, streaming outside. In that way love lives and grows. Votes: 0

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door. Votes: 0

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table. Votes: 0

O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out Against the wreckful siege of battering days, When rocks impregnable are not so stout, Nor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays? Votes: 0

The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myself; that is not what I meant by freedom, it is only social progress. Votes: 0

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities. Votes: 0

I've had my fill of these city guttersnipes--all that scavenging scum! They're the sort of people, who, if the gates of heaven opened to them, all they'd feel would be a draught. Votes: 0

My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world. Votes: 0

Jesus didn't die to make us safe. He died to make us dangerous! Faithfulness isn't holding the fort. It's storming the gates of hell with the light and love of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from. Votes: 0

Within its gates I heard the sound Of winds in cypress caverns caught Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought To whisper what their roots had found. ("A Dream of Fear") Votes: 0

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell. Votes: 0

If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need. Votes: 0

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies. Votes: 0

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off. Votes: 0

Give me great sinners to make great saints! They are glorious raw material for Grace to work upon and when you do get them saved, they will shake the very gates of Hell! Votes: 0

You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea. Votes: 0

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream. Votes: 0

It's a thin line between paper and hate, Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights, Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come, Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs. Votes: 0

The City that God is building for you and me, not even death can pass its gates! God's City of Tomorrow, His garden of the gods, will have no pain nor death nor sorrow! Votes: 0

Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted. Votes: 0

If he wakes up, I swear I’ll do anything. I’ll open gates, I’ll help all the paranormals, I’ll never judge people wearing Crocs again. Just let him wake up. Please. Votes: 0

Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die. Votes: 0

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven. Votes: 0

As a little boy, I apparently had a predilection for undoing latch gates, running up pathways and ringing doorbells - and then running off again and away before the door was opened behind me. Votes: 0

I earned my place,With the tidal waves.I can't escape this feeling,That something ain't right.I called my nameAs I crashed the gates,Still I can't escape this feelingThat something ain't right. Votes: 0

I got a golden handshake that nearly broke my arm I left the ranks of shuffling graveyard people I got rust upon my hands from the padlocked factory gates Silent chimneys provide the silent steeples Votes: 0

I am at last reconciled to my God and have assurance of His pardon through faith in Christ, against which the very gates of hell cannot prevail. Fear hath been driven out by perfect love. Votes: 0

My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. Votes: 0

I am curious about color as one would be visiting a new country, because I have never concentrated so closely on color expression. Up to now I have waited at the gates of the temple. Votes: 0

I just - I fell in love with the sport when I started to ski gates. Once I was allowed to start training gates around 6 years old, then I really fell in love with it. Votes: 0

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin! Votes: 0