December 4, 2019

Bill Gates

Billy on paradigm creation:

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

Billy on the newly emerging personal computer market in the late 1970s:

Nobody really knew what was going on. So many things would have obviously needed to be done if you‘d had the vision back then. Nobody had the view of the market.

Well, almost nobody (Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak).


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