Re:What Bill Gates was doing at 20 years old
by hfdgiutdryg on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @08:03AM
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how can you dismiss someone's success as due to it?
I don't think it's being dismissed as due to it, so much as it's acknowledging the near-necessity of it to attain success.
Gates went to a high school where the parents pooled money in order to buy mainframe time for their kids. Gates was seeing a therapist, which helped him focus and mature faster. He had the support to start a fairly wild venture with a friend.
Gates is incredibly intelligent, focused, disciplined, and was in the right place at the right time.
If I were in his shoes, I wouldn't have succeeded. Not because I lacked the resources, but because I'd have found the idea of writing a BASIC interpreter to be boring and wouldn't have seen it through. But I also probably wouldn't have had access to the technology necessary in the first place...
I don't think it's being dismissed as due to it, so much as it's acknowledging the near-necessity of it to attain success.
Gates went to a high school where the parents pooled money in order to buy mainframe time for their kids. Gates was seeing a therapist, which helped him focus and mature faster. He had the support to start a fairly wild venture with a friend.
Gates is incredibly intelligent, focused, disciplined, and was in the right place at the right time.
If I were in his shoes, I wouldn't have succeeded. Not because I lacked the resources, but because I'd have found the idea of writing a BASIC interpreter to be boring and wouldn't have seen it through. But I also probably wouldn't have had access to the technology necessary in the first place...