bill gates quotes on work

The obscurest epoch is today. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains



As the bus slowed down at the crowded bus stop, the Pakistani bus conductor leaned from the platform and called out, "Six only!" The bus stopped. He counted on six passengers, rang the bell, and then, as the bus moved off, called to those left behind: "So sorry, plenty of room in my heart - but the bus is full." He left behind a row of smiling faces. It's not what you do, it's the way that you do it. ~The Friendship Book of Francis Gay, 1977



In the night of death, hope sees a star, and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing. ~Robert Ingersoll



I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them. ~Pablo Picasso



I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. ~Thomas A. Edison



I was undoubtedly at the end of my strength. A flood of tears gushed from my eyes. I wouldn't have been able to tell the reason for these tears, which were not tears of distress, and which, to the contrary, gave me relief and relaxation.... It was for myself I was weeping, perhaps, for my presence in this garden, for this cursed love in which I felt that everything which then remained to me - every generous impulse, every lost desire, and every noble ambition was profaned by the impure breath of these kisses, of which I was ashamed and for which I was also thirsty. Well, no! Why should I lie to myself? Physical tears... tears of weakness, fatigue and fever, tears of enervation before sights too cruel for my debilitated senses, before odors too strong for my sense of smell, before the continual oscillation of my carnal desires from impotence to frenzy... the tears of a woman... tears for nothing at all! ~"The Garden," Chapter 6



Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ~Steven Weinberg



He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker



Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer



Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all. ~Voltaire



Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ~Eric Fromm



From a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right. ~Samuel Butler, Note-Books, 1912



The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. ~Terri Guillemets



Know safety, no injury. No safety, know injury. ~Author Unknown



Safety never takes a holiday. ~Author Unknown



When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~Howard Ikemoto



You know horses are smarter than people. You never heard of a horse going broke betting on people. ~Will Rogers



Few rich men own their property; the property owns them. ~Robert Ingersoll, speech, New York, 29 October 1896



America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. ~Jimmy Carter



Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe. ~John Lancaster Spalding