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Quotes About Gates

It made it clear to me that Gates was not the kind of person that would understand or appreciate the elegance of a Macintosh.
~ Walter Isaacson
Sealing the Microsoft deal by phone with Gates: "Bill, thank you for your support of this company. I think the world's a better place for it.
~ Walter Isaacson
His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility," Gates told the Washington Post. "It doesn't run any of the existing software. It's a super-nice computer. I don't think if I went out to design an incompatible computer I would have done as well as he did.
~ Walter Isaacson
Louis XVI made the Franco-American treaties official by receiving the three commissioners at Versailles on March 20. Crowds gathered at the palace gates to catch a glimpse of the famous American, and they shouted "Vive Franklin" as his coach passed through the gold-crested gates.
~ Walter Isaacson
I have been through the gates, I have groped, I have crept Back, back. There is dust in the streets, and blood; they are empty; darkness is over them; His heart is a place with the lights gone out, forsaken by great winds and the heavenly rain, unclean and unswept, Like the heart of the holy city, old, blind, beautiful Jerusalem, Over which Christ wept.
~ Charlotte Mew
Either birds or bats flapped up and into the night as the gates rolled back into position. My money was on bats. Little blingy ones, carrying tiny Louis Vuitton clutches.
~ Cherie Priest
Sure." Olivia smirked. "Good ol' New York Public Library. I'm sure it's up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.
~ Cheyenne McCray
They ate some of the rancid, pasty glop the airport coffee shop called food. Just because they had a captive clientele next to the departure gates was all the reason the food operators needed to overcharge people for food that, Macklin thought, probably violated the Geneva Conventions, or at least the constitutional strictures against cruel and inhuman punishment
~ Lee Goldberg
The people who live in these places think the gates protect them from all the crime and misery that's out there, but it doesn't. It just locks them in with it.
~ Lee Goldberg
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
~ William Shatner
Grace Cathedral in San Francisco and discovered that replicas of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise
~ Dan Brown
An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.
~ China Mieville
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
~ Henning Mankell
Behold the gates of mercy in arbitrary space.
~ Leonard Cohen
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.
~ Anthony Michael Hall
An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.
~ Peter Porter
For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, And never shall it be more gracious.
~ William Shakespeare
Revolutions have their momentum, and once you join the current it is very difficult to escape the rapids. Revolutions are not solid gates through which nations pass but a force comparable to a storm that sweeps all before it. One of
~ Hisham Matar
There is nothing for her beyond those gates," Gavriel said. "Do you think to bring her along like a talisman to remind you of your humanity? Or do you think sharing your damnation will lighten the burden of it?
~ Holly Black
A CPU is just a collection of logic gates.
~ Jeff Hawkins
The Beauty drew near and the Youth heard her softly ringing, clear voice, every sound of which rent his heart with a sweet pain, "Dear Youth, do you know the price of my love?" "Let it be the price of life!" exclaimed the Youth, "Let it lead even to the dark gates of death." ("The Poison Garden")
~ Unknown
I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of heaven. You have to let me in, he says. I wrote Parsifal . It has to do with the Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right? And they answer, Well, we read it and it makes no sense. SLAM .
~ Philip K. Dick
Bill Gates, who has murdered more innocents than even the Clintons, apparently.
~ David Sedaris