"Really advanced civilization is based on advances..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?”

“Ridiculous sums of money can be confusing.”

“... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll see that's more than most people make in a lifetime!”

“We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.”

“Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.”

“Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.”

“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”

“He who talks more is sooner exhausted.”

“Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.”