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"Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake."
"To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness."
"Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love."
"Any pleasure that does no harm to other people is to be valued."
"Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'."
"I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel."
"Very many people spend money in ways quite different from those that their natural tastes would enjoin, merely because the respect of their neighbors depends upon their possession of a good car and their ability to give good dinners. As a matter of fact, any man who can obviously afford a car but genuinely prefers travels or a good library will in the end be much more respected than if he behaved exactly like everyone else."
"When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder."
"The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have."
"Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever."
"The universe is full of dead people who lived by assumption."
"Love is something that never goes out of style. It's something everybody experiences, and if they are not in love, people usually want to feel that."
"I'm sure my priorities will change. My mother was such a great mother and is still such a big part of my life. I want my kids to feel that way about me. I want to be in their lives. I don't want to be away a lot, so I'm sure I'll slow down. But there are so many amazing people who do both."
"The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills."
"There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people."
"Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs."
"When you revolutionize education, you're taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you're priming the pump for so many incredible things."
"One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.'"
"It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense."
"I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news."
