All BILL GATES Quotes about “Books”

“In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.”
“Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.”
“I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”
“There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.”
“You don't go to other books and take little pieces because although say a romantic scene may have been many times before all the details of who it is, where it is, are so intertwined in that text that it's easier to write it from scratch.”
“The interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .”
“For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.”
“Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'”

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