“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.
“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“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Let him think I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Disputed“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”
— Ayn Rand Primary source