Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision." - Bob Proctor

Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.

I like to pretend that my art has nothing to do with me.

[When asked how someone 6'3" had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf.

Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

Hope is an amusement rather than a good, and adapted to none but very tranquil minds.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.