"In the summer of 1988, I received an interesting call from Bill Gates at Microsoft. He asked whether I'd like to come over and talk about building a new operating system at Microsoft for personal computers. [...] What Bill had to offer was the opportunity to build another operating system, one that was portable [...]."

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Source : "Introduction". Inside Windows NT, 1998.

#Summer Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards.”
“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.”
“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
“There is no good reason to suppose that whatever can be felt can be expressed in words, or indeed in any articulate form.”
“Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.”
“I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.”

Source : "Mohamed Morsi, in UN speech, calls for action on Syria, Palestinian cause " by Priyanka Boghani, www.pri.org. September 26, 2012.
“There is nothing finer in history than Thomas at Chickamauga.”

Source : Henry M. Cist (2004). “The Army of the Cumberland: The Army and Navy in The Civil War”, p.227, Digital Scanning Inc
“I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.”

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