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"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
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"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations."
"So, yeah, I can say I always set my expectations so high that I had a lot to live up to."
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
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"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
"In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the crucial link bringing tools such as vaccines and education to the people who need them most. How well trained are they? Are they showing up to work?"
"The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster."
"The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits."
"My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."
"When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have."
"Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things."
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