George W. Bush vs. Bill Gates
Read 20 entries attributed to George W. Bush alongside 20 attributed to Bill Gates. Compare the wording and topic labels.
This page places 20 entries attributed to George W. Bush 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: time, justice, mind, happiness, religion, knowledge. Shared labels do not by themselves demonstrate agreement, disagreement, or influence between the authors.
Attributed to George W. Bush, entry #69551: "I'm for an immigration policy that's welcoming."
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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George W. Bush
1824 – 1900
George Walker Bush is an American politician, businessman, and former U.S. Air Force officer who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of the Republican Party and the eldest son of the 41st president, George H.
"I'm for an immigration policy that's welcoming."
#politics"Taking care of women, is good politics."
#politics"Secondly, you are blessed to live in the greatest Nation – ever. Here you can strive and succeed as far as you dare to dream. It says something about our cou…"
#hope"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom."
#freedom"We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them."
#fear"People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example; I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or he…"
#time"I understand not everybody agrees with the decisions I've made, but that's not unique to Central or South America. Truth of the matter is, there's people who…"
#truth"But our enemies and our friends can be certain. The United States will not retreat from the world, and we will never surrender to evil. America rejects the f…"
#leadership"No device of man can remove the tragedy from war, yet it is a great advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent."
#war"Members of Congress: however we feel about the decisions and debates of the past, our nation has only one option: We must keep our word, defeat our enemies, …"
#history"Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering …"
#justice"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
#mind"Our public interest depends on private character, on civic duty and family bonds and basic fairness, on uncounted, unhonored acts of decency which give direc…"
#justice"Frankly, I think it's bad for former presidents. I like the model of President Ford and my dad. When they got off the stage, you get off the stage. It's some…"
#happiness"You have lifted a shadow of fear for many families. God bless you and may God bless the victims."
#religion"I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it."
#knowledge"...The battle against the Sunnis - Sunni extremists - some of them Saddamists, some of there are al Qaeda, but all of them aiming to try to drive the United …"
#motivation"These sources of strength are also in the faith that sustains so many of us. Across the town of Blacksburg and in towns all across America, houses of worship…"
#religion"So if you happen to bump into a Democrat candidate, you might want to ask this simple question: What's your plan? If they say they want to protect the homela…"
#success"I thought the Iraqis were Muslims."
#mindBill 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