“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.”
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— 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“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Nothing so popular as goodness.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.”
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