personal experience Quotes

It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all... ...

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished... ...

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

The job was to put into a, a computer with only 4K of memory an entire basic full blown, floating point Basic and that's one of the greatest programming feats I've ever had a chance to work on.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non-educated family, yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking... ...

My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained... ...

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!