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“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“There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“If you’d know the value of money, go and borrow some.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you’d lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A dog starv’d at his master’s gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.”