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“Any company that stays the same will be passed by very quickly.”
— 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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“A new-born government must dazzle.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.”
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