Source Code (Primary source)
Source Code is Bill Gates’s origin memoir, covering his childhood in Seattle through his college years up to the founding of Microsoft. He reflects on family, loss, learning to code, and the influences that shaped his early life.
“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Any company that stays the same will be passed by very quickly.”
— 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“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“If you have time don’t wait for time.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“A good example is the best sermon.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Our spontaneous action is always the best.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source