I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

智者的道路是一条不断上升的坡道。

——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

Optimism is a learned skill. Once you learn it, you can improve your life in every way.

When I write songs, I often cry.

I write to make the invisible visible.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I’ve tried to really stress that.

Technology gives us the illusion of thinking， while we merely process data.

One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.