记住你即将死去，是我知道的避免思考你会失去什么的最好方式。
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to.
——2006年6月15日，盖茨在宣布将退出微软日常管理工作新闻发布会上的发言
