Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

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.

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.

Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

Fire is the test of gold adversity of strong men.

The risk of getting Hep B from a blood transfusion is a tiny number, but it's a bigger number than the risk of side effects from the vaccine.

I support Leeds United, and like any fan, I dreamed of playing for them. I tried out at the club and also tried rugby and cricket, and triathlon didn't really become part of my life until I was 16 or 17 - but it was the sport I enjoyed most.

I can only say that I have had a wonderful life.

The voice of the Holy Father was like a light.

My niece was born with cystic fibrosis 15 years ago, and she's incredibly healthy and an incredible competitive dancer, so I'm going to do some events for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.

You have to compromise all the way. The only thing that counts is the result.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

I suppose there are many, but I cannot imagine ever having a more perfect collaboration than that which Penn-san and I shared. It was based upon mutual trust, respect, and a desire to have our own work pushed to new places. And it always resulted in delight.

The atmosphere is different in Congress after September 11. Terrorism is no longer an abstract issue, but a real, tangible threat.

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.

All painting, beginning with Impressionism, is antiscientific, even Seurat. I was interested in introducing the precise and exact aspect of science, which hadn't often been done, or at least hadn't been talked about very much.

I'm so much like Luke Skywalker I guess I always will be.

The U.S.-Israel alliance is a core part of our strategic position in the Middle East.

I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band.

The wars we fought were forced upon us. Thanks to the Israel Defense Forces, we won them all, but we did not win the greatest victory that we aspired to: release from the need to win victories.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down the rainbow.

The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

We should not have assumed that a political space station could be built.