#your

In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. ↗

— Bill Gates

#by the time #gone #late #realize #running

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy. ↗

— Bill Gates

#been #beg #binary #bow #coming

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble. ↗

— Bill Gates

#geeks #like #real #real trouble #trouble

You can find virtually everybody black back as far as the 1870 census. Why 1870? That's when the ex-slaves first have surnames. But if you find your great-great-grandfather in 1870 and it says he's 50, that means he was born in 1820 and you're back to 1820 already. For an American that's pretty damned good, you know? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#american #as far as #back #black #born

Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#child #children #differently #get #granted

I have heard your views. They do not harmonize with mine. The decision is taken unanimously. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#harmonize #heard #i #mine #taken

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#else #fast #feet #strategy #useless

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#finally #give #giving #hat #out

If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend but never your slave. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#cat #friend #never #slave #will

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#depths #despair #forward #go #got