Adolf Hitler vs. Bill Gates
Read 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Bill Gates. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to Adolf Hitler alongside 20 attributed to Bill Gates. Each selection is ordered by stored importance score. These are selections from QuoteLineage, not complete accounts of either author's work.
Topic labels present in both displayed selections: justice, human nature, time. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to Adolf Hitler, entry #1250: "And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
Attributed to Bill Gates, entry #135329: "If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
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Adolf Hitler
1889 – 1945
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era, which lasted from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War.
"And I can fight only for something that I love, love only what I respect, and respect only what I at least know."
#love"Germany has no claims to make against the European nations except to live exactly like the others. ... What we have in mind is a legal order of European nati…"
#justice"In the course of my life I have very often been a prophet, and have usually been ridiculed for it. During the time of my struggle for power it was in the fir…"
#leadership"I will tolerate no opposition. We recognize only subordination – authority downwards and responsibility upwards. You just tell the German bourgeoisie that I …"
#justice"The struggle between the people and the hatred amongst them is being nurtured by very specific interested parties. It is a small, rootless, international cli…"
#life"There are more than ten million Germans in two states, and in the Great War they fought side by side with German soldiers. Against their will they have been …"
#freedom"We do not want a war merely for the purpose of bringing to Germany people who simply do not want to be, or cannot be, Germans."
#Human Nature"Additionally, on special petition men should be able to enter into a binding martial relationship not only with one woman, but also with another, who would t…"
#family"Shoot Gandhi, and if that does not suffice to reduce them to submission, shoot a dozen leading members of Congress; and if that does not suffice, shoot 200 a…"
#leadership"National-Socialism came to power in Germany in the same year as Roosevelt was elected President. . . Roosevelt comes from a rich family and belongs to the cl…"
#family"In my eyes, the year 1942 already has behind it the most fateful trial of our people. That was the winter of '41 to '42. I may be permitted to say that in th…"
#time"Assessment of Hitler as malignant narcissist"
"Then the spirits of our fallen comrades shall rise from their graves to thank all those whose courage and loyalty have now once more atoned for the sins comm…"
#time"Hitler's 25 point national socialist program"
#society"If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower."
#freedom"England, unlike in 1914, will not allow herself to blunder into a war lasting for years... Such is the fate of rich countries... Not even England has the mon…"
#time"The liberty of the individual ends where it starts to harm the interests of the collective."
#freedom"They bring in high earnings without work. One of these days I'll sweep away this outrage and nationalize all corporations."
#time"I am for force, because in force I see strength, and in strength the eternal mother of rights, and in rights the root of life itself."
#life"1943 Psychological Profile of Hitler written by Dr. Henry A. Murray for the wartime Office of Strategic Services"
#philosophyBill Gates
1915 – 1968
William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Following Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986 and the subsequent increase in its stock price, Gates became the world's then-youngest billionaire in 1987, at age 31.
"If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
#books"We are running the worst testing system, in terms of who gets access to it, of any country"
#human nature"In the last 20 years, thanks to your hard work, polio has declined by 99 percent. In 1988, 350,000 people got polio. By 2008, the number was down to just a c…"
#justice"Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in,…"
#justice"Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if…"
#time"I'd like to start by telling you about my wife Melinda's Aunt Myra. We see her a few times a year. Aunt Myra worked for many years taking reservations for De…"
#knowledge"This leads to the paradox, that because the disease is only in the poor countries, there is not much investment. For example, there is more money put into ba…"
#money"The moral systems of religion, I think, are superimportant. We've raised our kids in a religious way; they've gone to the Catholic church that Melinda goes t…"
#art"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."
#change"When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war. That's why we had a barrel like this down in our basement, filled with cans of food a…"
#time"Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for. So yes."
#happiness"Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'l…"
#mind"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."
#humor"t's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, "Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough." It's a nice reader, but there's …"
#religion"Unfortunately, many programs are so big that there is no one individual who really knows all the pieces, and so the amount of code sharing you get isn't as g…"
#knowledge"Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company."
"If you show people the problems and you show people the solutions they will be moved to act."
#Human Nature"If you just want to say, "Steve Jobs invented the world, and then the rest of us came along," that's fine. If you're interested, Jim Allchin will be glad to …"
#creativity"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
#time"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complet…"
#creativity