#be

The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software. ↗

— Bill Gates

#anything #because #deeply #every #except

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #careful #diseases #few #pick

There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw. ↗

— Bill Gates

#between #bureaucrat #draw #line #magic

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits. ↗

— Charles J. Givens

#any #area #become #habits #identifying

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head. ↗

— Daryl Gates

#beforehand #done #film #had #head

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#before #believe #brown #corrupted #difficult

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conscience #countries #disease #evil #physicians

Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#disbelief #ignorance #lack #regardless #truth

I rebel at the notion that I can't be part of other groups, that I can't construct identities through elective affinity, that race must be the most important thing about me. Is that what I want on my gravestone: Here lies an African American? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#affinity #african #african american #american #construct

It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact, Africans had been creators of culture for thousands of years before. These were very intelligent, subtle and sophisticated people, with organized societies and great art. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#arrived #art #been #before #being