"People always fear change. People feared electricity..." - Quote by Bill Gates
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
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“I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!”
“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.”
“I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.”
More on Change
“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.”
“It has become a people's war, and peoples of all sorts and races, of every degree of power and variety of fortune, are involved inits sweeping processes of change and settlement.”
More on Fear
“I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.”
“A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.”
“There are only two emotions - Fear and Love. Go with Love.”