Categories Starting with “G”

“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.”

— Bill Gates

“Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.”

— Bill Gates

“Heaven means to be one with God.”

— Confucius

“If I am elected President, I will end the special interest monopoly in Washington, D.C.”

— Donald Trump

“Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.”

— Bernard Shaw

“Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.”

— Richard Feynman

“We die as often as we lose a friend.”

— Publilius Syrus

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”

— Steve Jobs

“I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.”

— Linus Torvalds