“However good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects.”
Bill Gates
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.
“In my emerging worldview, I had formed a hierarchy of intelligence: however good you were at math, that’s how good you’d be at other subjects—biology, chemistry, history, or even languages.”
Bill Gates
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