My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was...
MELINDA GATES Kids are falling through the cracks and nobody notices it. That to me is what's wrong with the s...
MELINDA GATES I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhe...
MELINDA GATES There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not a...
MELINDA GATES Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking y...
MELINDA GATES It is still just unbelievable to us that diarrhea is one of the leading causes of child deaths in th...
MELINDA GATES We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and...
MELINDA GATES If you are successful, it is because somewhere, sometime, someone gave you a life or an idea that st...
MELINDA GATES I think it's very important that we instill in our kids that it has nothing to do with their nam...
MELINDA GATES Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies.
MELINDA GATES The premise of this foundation is one life on this planet is no more valuable than the next.
MELINDA GATES You can't save kids just with vaccines.
MELINDA GATES You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and ge...
MELINDA GATES In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent ...
MELINDA GATES After a number of years dating, we decided we were good partners.
MELINDA GATES We always protect our heads, our faces,' he commented as he followed a half-step behind and to her l...
MELINDA CROSS How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?
MELINDA CROSS I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breakin...
MELINDA MCGRAW We couldn't get a cab from the house we were renting. We had to hitch a ride. Then we started to pan...
MELINDA SHIRAKI Of course, we'll be open for adoptions, so we hope that will be a high adoption day.
MELINDA RUETER We just improvised as best we could.
MELINDA SHIRAKI As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last...
MELINDA MCGRAW They set fires in a city that has no water, which blows our minds.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We usually end up crying. He tells us not to be scared.
MELINDA SHIRAKI It's easier to be with three of your best friends and we keep each other entertained. One cries and ...
MELINDA SHIRAKI It feels like we're in the movies.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We wheel and deal for food. I can't believe we have to do this in America.
MELINDA SHIRAKI It's like being in a prison, and we just wait.
MELINDA SHIRAKI This is our only link to the world.
MELINDA SHIRAKI We've got a giant tomato patch with more than 50 varieties of tomatoes.
MELINDA CARMICHAEL You would never know that the tail is gone. I don't think even he knows it's gone.
MELINDA BRINK While this is just part of Crane's outreach efforts, it is an important part of making Crane visible...
MELINDA HENDRIX We're trying not to get caught up in the madness -- the violence, the looting and fires.
MELINDA SHIRAKI She was so exhausted. She slept. She was unaware of Tyler stifling his own grief.
MELINDA HEALD We're definitely pleased with the outcome of today's games. We started out a little tentative, but h...
MELINDA FISCHER Shannon really pitched well today. (Jenna) Hall is just a tremendous batter. Shannon gave up some hi...
MELINDA FISCHER Amber had a great week. I can't remember any other freshman having as great of an impact as she has ...
MELINDA FISCHER It was really exciting for us to get our bats going like we did today. Everyone really contributed t...
MELINDA FISCHER She has really been able to guide them through some things and been very patient. You can't expect s...
MELINDA FISCHER In high school, they relied a lot on the bunt and the slap and could beat it out consistently. In ou...
MELINDA FISCHER Creighton has won the (Valley) tournament the last three years, and that's huge. We need to be ready...
MELINDA FISCHER Amber has definitely come through for us with some key hits. She really has helped us offensively.
MELINDA FISCHER Offensively I thought Tricia, Randi and Stacy had a really good day. We did some nice things defensi...
MELINDA FISCHER I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity...
MELINDA CROSS Words are life & death, a good quote is Gods breath of life.
MELINDA OVERTURF 'You will love life, when you love the man in the mirror.
MELINDA OVERTURF Happiness is the Highest Goal, Because Looking With-in is the Hardest Work.
MELINDA OVERTURF Relationships are like a game of chess, the queen dictates all the moves.
MELINDA OVERTURF It's just such a switch going from rescuer to victim, in a sense. It's just about adapting and survi...
MELINDA SHIRAKI Spring clean the body, Detox the Soul.
MELINDA OVERTURF She would be an awesome coach. She's creative, she's inventive, she's thrifty, and she can think on ...
MELINDA FISCHER I was more of a light opera singer, not really much of a lounge singer.
MELINDA CLARKE We just don't feel like it's a good place for a big-box anything.
MELINDA HINKSON Work is one of the most dangerous places for a marriage...
MELINDA WALTERS You can't cross a river until you can take your eyes off it long enough to build a bridge.
MELINDA OVERTURF In our backyard. There was a huge pile of raw sewage on top of the ground.
MELINDA RODGERS Don’t be late or I may end up marrying the judge.
MELINDA HEALD Yep, it sticks to your ribs, doesn’t it?” “It’s stuck to the cup, Tyler.
MELINDA HEALD Philosopher Jean Baudrillard made a similar observation about the use of material goods as symbols o...
MELINDA SELMYS If I come to you, I want it to be because I am choosing you, for no reason other than that. I don't ...
MELINDA SALISBURY I am the perfect weapon, I can kill with a single touch.
MELINDA SALISBURY Always dream big and dare to believe!
MELINDA RABIN Motherhood doesn't have a nationality
MELINDA CROSS We started as social workers and wanted to be in a caring profession and then we did all these other...
MELINDA BLANCHARD It can lead to depression and even suicide.
MELINDA EASH These liaisons provide an interface and serve as Crane's spokespersons to address items of mutual in...
MELINDA HENDRIX This team has spent over 1,100 man days in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf since the programs...
MELINDA HENDRIX In some things, the body really does have a mind of its own, and weight is one of those things. Some...
MELINDA JOHNSON I was just happy to come out and score finally. I've been in a slump lately.
MELINDA MEGGITT I resigned over this issue. Do I think this matter is of some importance? Yes, I do.
MELINDA MORTON In an ideal world, if any government program is going to be self-sufficient, the consumer needs to b...
MELINDA MONTEEN Do they have an impact? Absolutely. People feel they have a 'Good Housekeeping' seal of approval, th...
MELINDA NEWMAN I think one of the things we really like about it is we're taking an unused building that had really...
MELINDA RUETER The very presence of guilt, let alone its tenacity, implies imbalance: Something, we suspect, is get...
MELINDA M. MARSHALL On the steps leading to a door
was a scrub brush that was blue.
I snatched it quick and ra...
MELINDA K. TROTTER Jill showed friend Kay the cute white mice.
They liked to run races for cheese.
Mice were ...
MELINDA K. TROTTER Kaylee giggled as he tunneled up inside her sleeve.
Out popped his head for a quick look, then ...
MELINDA K. TROTTER That weekend my people brought home
a big eared gray scrawny kit.
He was so loud and anno...
MELINDA K. TROTTER Toilet paper unrolled and slithered
then wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll...
MELINDA K. TROTTER True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.
KEVIN GATES I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in pr...
KEVIN GATES I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I'm in.
KEVIN GATES I don't sleep much. I don't sleep much - I work, I work, I work.
KEVIN GATES Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.
KEVIN GATES I always knew who I was, and I always ran from my true purpose... I know what my job is. And I alway...
KEVIN GATES I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.
KEVIN GATES What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever - I rap about...
KEVIN GATES I don't want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.
KEVIN GATES I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.
KEVIN GATES Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way ...
KEVIN GATES The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don't really know me. You just ...
KEVIN GATES I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I'm just a cold-blooded investigator.
KEVIN GATES I look at other people's lives, and some people feel like they're too old to play with toys....
KEVIN GATES I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.
KEVIN GATES I used to really love Fiend, but he stopped. He just stopped. Every time he had a project, every pro...
KEVIN GATES Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
KEVIN GATES I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.
KEVIN GATES I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.
KEVIN GATES I don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.
KEVIN GATES I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.
KEVIN GATES When you stand for something, you've got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
KEVIN GATES Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But i...
BILL GATES The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft in...
BILL GATES According to Ethiopian custom, parents wait to name a baby because children often die in the first w...
BILL GATES My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a ...
BILL GATES Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated ...
BILL GATES The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best.
BILL GATES The bulk of the universities are about teaching kids.
BILL GATES People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision...
BILL GATES In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actua...
BILL GATES My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
BILL GATES In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
BILL GATES I think there will be PCs at every price point.
BILL GATES I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems.
BILL GATES The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natu...
BILL GATES The only definition by which America's best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.
BILL GATES Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. ...
BILL GATES At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I&...
BILL GATES I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a littl...
BILL GATES Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on...
BILL GATES I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so t...
BILL GATES To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes so...
BILL GATES Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
BILL GATES People everywhere love Windows.
BILL GATES I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
BILL GATES The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
BILL GATES If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago...
BILL GATES Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.
BILL GATES Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.
BILL GATES I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
BILL GATES China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.
BILL GATES The best teacher is very interactive.
BILL GATES Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
BILL GATES The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
BILL GATES Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it k...
BILL GATES I'm a geek.
BILL GATES I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me.
BILL GATES If you go back to 1800, everybody was poor. I mean everybody. The Industrial Revolution kicked in, a...
BILL GATES As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
BILL GATES Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and...
BILL GATES Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.
BILL GATES If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
BILL GATES Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
BILL GATES We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.
BILL GATES In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his ho...
BILL GATES The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one o...
BILL GATES This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more...
BILL GATES The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p...
BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
BILL GATES I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to...
BILL GATES Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
BILL GATES I like to have quiet evenings and relax.
GARETH GATES I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner...
KEVIN GATES There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
BILL GATES I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gard...
GATES MCFADDEN Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
GATES MCFADDEN I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is...
BILL GATES There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Was...
BILL GATES The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for ten...
BILL GATES Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos...
BILL GATES On the McGuire course, there's a technique called 'cancellation' where negative experien...
GARETH GATES I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's ...
GARETH GATES If I get a bad review, I don't take it personally because everyone is entitled to their opinion.
GARETH GATES At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my ma...
GARETH GATES My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important t...
GARETH GATES In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rathe...
GARETH GATES Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the Wes...
GARETH GATES I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue...
GARETH GATES Because I see my mum and dad as such amazing friends, I think I'll be a really good dad.
GARETH GATES I do find my speech difficult at times, but it's getting so much better as my confidence grows a...
GARETH GATES Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has ...
GARETH GATES I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it'...
GARETH GATES I haven't been the best boyfriend or husband, and that means I don't get to spend every day ...
GARETH GATES No one knows for sure if you can inherit a stammer, and so I worry that my baby might. It's why ...
GARETH GATES I'm part of a speech therapy programme called the McGuire Programme. It teaches you a new way to...
GARETH GATES The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight...
GARETH GATES Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing...
GARETH GATES I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It'...
GARETH GATES Before all this happened, I always used to see my stammer as being a negative, all my life, but then...
GARETH GATES I had a meal in Pizza Hut and the waitress told me I didn't need to pay. So I decided to be a bi...
GARETH GATES You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the con...
BILL GATES I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So...
BILL GATES There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's...
BILL GATES Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying ...
BILL GATES There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fix...
BILL GATES We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some ...
BILL GATES The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't g...
BILL GATES I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that mak...
BILL GATES Often you have to rely on intuition.
BILL GATES Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I ...
BILL GATES The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the information about what's going on...
BILL GATES The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct cont...
BILL GATES