“Who can afford to do professional work for nothing?”
Bill Gates
An Open Letter to Hobbyists (Primary source)
In An Open Letter to Hobbyists, Bill Gates confronted members of the Homebrew Computer Club and similar early computing communities over the widespread unauthorized copying of Altair BASIC, the software he and Paul Allen had developed through their fledgling company Micro-Soft.
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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Nothing augments a battalion like success.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“Money is a tool to be put to work.”
— A.P. Møller Disputed“With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source