Smithsonian Interview: Bill Gates (Primary source)
Bill Gates reflects on the early personal computing revolution, Microsoft’s role, and how software shaped the industry in this Smithsonian oral history interview from the Computer History Collection.
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“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Anytime we have new forms of communication it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The type of person who comes up with the brilliant idea isn’t often the best person to turn it into a business.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“As usual in human affairs, what determines the behavior are incentives for the decision-maker, and getting the incentives right is a very, very important lesson.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source