will.i.am

will.i.am

30 quotes

An American rapper active since the 1970s, will.i.am has long been a source of memorable observations. With equal ease, will.i.am moved between Mom and Technology, finding connections others missed. Our collection holds 36 quotes from will.i.am, each offering a different angle on Mom, Technology, Politics, Future, and Family. Start here and see if you agree: "It should be mandatory that you understand computer science."

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“You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.”

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Technology

All Quotes by will.i.am

“Romantic love is painful.”

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Romantic

“I don't like politics.”

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Politics

“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”

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Technology

“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”

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Business

“My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.”

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Mom

“When I got into junior high school, that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.”

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Mom

“You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.”

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Future

“If you live in a ghetto and really want not to just change your life and your family's life but change your ghetto's life, make your ghetto a good neighbourhood, learn science try to be like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.”

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Family

“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”

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Business

“I don't want to hope anymore. I don't think we should hope anymore. We hoped enough. Now we have to do. We all have to do now.”

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Hope

“It should be mandatory that you understand computer science.”

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Science

“If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?”

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Technology

“You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.”

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Technology

“There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.”

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Education

“If you really want change, you really want it to be inclusive, where everyone's included, otherwise you're just going to have more of the same in the future.”

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Future

“I like all the families in the U.K. But what I like about the idea of the royal family is... they seem like they're well educated and there's something admirable about them. And the Queen... she reminds me of my grandma.”

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Family

“Eisenhower warned us about the military-industrial complex and the damage it could do to society.”

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Society

“If you would ask my mom what books I liked growing up, I liked Dr. Seuss.”

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Mom

“Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.”

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Success

“There's an entry point to any relationship.”

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Relationship