“Oprah is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. If Bill Gates woke up tomorrow with Oprah's money, he'd jump out a fuckin' window and slit his throat on the way down saying, "I can't even put gas in my plane!"”

— Chris Rock

Never Scared (HBO, 2004)

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Paul DiLascia (1959–2008) American software developer

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“We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Bill Gates is never going to be Bill Clinton, no matter how he polishes his social skills, and Bill Clinton can never be Bill Gates, no matter how much time he spends alone with a computer.”

Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer

"The quiet strength of the introvert," The Chicago Tribune, February 20, 2012.

“Don't do that… By the way, this is not Oprah furniture; you jump on this, and it will be firewood… Oprah's got the real thing, this stuff…this is about as real as that [points to cityscape backdrop] right there.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

On Clive Barker pretending to be Tom Cruise.
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005–2014)

“Nobody ever inferred from the multiple infirmities of Windows that Bill Gates was infinitely benevolent, omniscient, and able to fix everything.”

Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher

Source: Think (1999), Chapter Five, God, p. 170

“Ask Bill [Gates] why the string in [MS-DOS] function 9 is terminated by a dollar sign. Ask him, because he can't answer. Only I know that.”

Gary Kildall (1942–1994) Computer scientist and entrepreneur

Quoted in James Wallace and Jim Erickson (1991-05-08), "Bill Gates: Of Mind and Money", Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Let's just hope that all the world is run by Bill Gates before the Perl hackers can destroy it.”

Erik Naggum (1965–2009) Norwegian computer programmer

Re: perl embedded in emacs http://groups.google.com/group/comp.emacs/msg/9ab7f3307363849a (Usenet article).
Usenet articles, Perl

“When Bill Gates pours money into Africa for feeding the poor in Africa and preventing famine, he’s pushing the failed Green Revolution, he’s pushing chemicals, pushing GMOs, pushing patterns.”

Vandana Shiva (1952) Indian philosopher

On Bill Gate's philanthropic activities, from " Bill Gates is continuing the work of Monsanto, Vandana Shiva tells France24 https://www.france24.com/en/20191023-bill-gates-is-continuing-the-work-of-monsanto-vandana-shiva-tells-france-24-1" France24 (23 October 2019)