"The willingness to hear hard truth is..." - Quote by Bill Gates

“Don't let complexity stop you.”

“There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.”

“You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better.”

“How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.”

“Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.”

“The nature of things is in the habit of concealing itself.”

“When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner”

“Those who are quiet value the words. When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves.”

“[Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision.”