People Quotes - Page 1184

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

Through radical generosity, we are awakening in people an in built divine consciousness of His goodness.

I saw...a kid on a leash. You seen these people? Kid on a leash? How horrible. Put him in the pound where he belongs.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

At the end of the day, when you are in the front office, your tenure is dictated by the people surrounding you.

In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car.

Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.

People who feel the world is tilted against them will spawn the kind of hatred that is very dangerous for all of us. I think it's a healthy sign that there are demonstrators in the streets. They are raising the question of 'is the rich world giving back enough?'

The government is somewhat inept, but the private sector is inept in general. How many companies do venture capitalists invest in that go poorly? By far most of them. However, every once in a while a Google or a Microsoft comes out, so people keep giving them money.

The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going on in a piece is extremely valuable. It avoids getting into an experimental mode where you're just trying things out. That never works.

People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like Microsoft.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .

I know at least two people who have never been killed by hippos.

What does an entrepreneur do? The first thing is they've given themselves permission to see a problem. Most people don't want to see problems ... Once you see a problem and you keep looking at it you'll find an answer.

Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices.

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing ... will win arguments and straighten people out.

When you say, "there's no reason [to hit a woman]" that kills any examination as to how two people ended up at that place. When you say, "there's no reason," you cut out the build-up and you're just left with the act. How you gonna solve it if you don't figure it out?