Thinker Comparison

Bill Gates vs. Jair Bolsonaro

Read 20 entries attributed to Bill Gates alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. Compare the wording and topic labels.

This page places 20 entries attributed to Bill Gates alongside 20 attributed to Jair Bolsonaro. 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: human nature, justice, time, knowledge, money, art, change. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.

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?"

Attributed to Jair Bolsonaro, entry #99811: "Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there. Now, when I'm smoking…"

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Bill Gates

1915 – 1968

Business
United States
69 quotes

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
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Jair Bolsonaro

1955 – 2019

Politics
Brazil
163 quotes

Jair Messias Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and former military officer who served as the 38th president of Brazil from 2019 to 2023. He previously served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2019.

"Look, working nine, ten years old at the farm, I was not harmed at all. When a nine-year-old, ten-year-old goes to work somewhere, it's full of people there.…"

#time

"If one's son begins acting kind of gay, then when he is spanked he'll change his behavior."

#change

"What is a golden shower?"

#money

"I have five children. There were four men, on the fifth I got weak and a woman came out."

#family

"it's devastating to know that someone with so much influence has such a disdain for the queer community."

#knowledge

"With distance education, you help to combat Marxism."

#knowledge

"There’s an awareness in Brazil that the reforms are vital for the federal entities to continue operating. Brazil has to work out. If not, the Left will retur…"

#knowledge

"Today, 14% of the Brazilian territory is demarcated as indigenous land, but we must understand that our natives are human beings, just like any of us. They w…"

#justice

"If I'm president, I'll leave UN. That institution is of no use. It's an organization of communists, of people that don't have any commitment at least to Sout…"

#Human Nature

"The mass suicide at Jonestown was the final episode of this tragic story — the end result of a personality cult around Jones, a paranoid narcissist. Jim Jone…"

#art

"If by chance he erred and it were proven, I regret it as a father, but he’ll have to pay the price for those actions we can’t accept."

#family

"I refuse any kind of support coming from supremacist groups. I recommend that, for coherence, they support the leftist candidate, who loves segregating socie…"

#Human Nature

"I defend torture. A drug dealer who acts on the streets against our children must to be immediately put on a pau-de-arara. There would be no human rights in …"

#family

"With humility and confidence in the liberating power of truth, let me reassure you that you will be able to count on this new Brazil that I represent. Thank …"

#truth

"I'm a victim of prejudice against heterosexuals."

"In my country, we had to do something about the nearly 70 thousand killings and countless violent crimes that annually tore apart the Brazilian population. L…"

#life

"Over the past few decades, we let ourselves be seduced by ideologies that sought not the truth, but absolute power. Ideology has settled in the domains of cu…"

#society

"It was in many ways a political marriage between the most radical evangelical and the most controversial militarist, who together hope to conceive a new gene…"

#politics

"What debt ? I never enslaved anyone in my life. Look, if you really look at history, the Portuguese didn’t even step foot in Africa. The blacks themselves tu…"

#life

"The recent declarations of Olavo de Carvalho against members of the government of the Republic do not contribute to the unity of its forces and the proposed …"

#politics
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