"To be born poor is not our..." - Quote by Bill Gates
To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime
More by Bill Gates
“At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.”
“Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.”
“The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.”
More on Life
“If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.”
“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”
“This is a universe that does not favor the timid.”
More on Responsibility
“Never mind your happiness; do your duty.”
“It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.”
“It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.”