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Source Code

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.

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“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
Bill Gates

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Topics: Failure Learning Success

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• Title: Source Code

• Author: Bill Gates

• Type: Book

• Publisher: Penguin Random House

• Publication time: 2025

• Publication place: New York, United States

• Link: https://www.gatesnotes.com/source-code-announcement

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