“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
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.
“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— 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“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”
— William Blake Primary source