#ice

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. ↗

— Bill Gates

#books #i #lot #nice #obscure

If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture. ↗

— Bill Gates

#agriculture #competing #energy #energy production #first-class

Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them. ↗

— Bill Gates

#because #buying #card #comes #credit

When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. ↗

— Bill Gates

#fill #homework #need #out #return

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#censorship #justice #lynching

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

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#criminal justice #criminal justice system #figure #i #i think

I give a speech to the black freshmen at Harvard each year, and I say, 'You can like Mozart and ice hockey...' - and then I used to say 'golf,' but Tiger took over golf! - 'and Picasso and still be as black as the ace of spades.' ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#black #each #freshmen #give #golf