"I could name about a dozen paths,..." - Quote by Bill Gates
I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out.
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“Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.”
“There's always a tricky issue when you get into stolen material or pornography. The laws for online publishing the same as for print-based publishing, where if you're hosting certain types of things and somebody notifies you about that.”
“Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you”
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“The first and most natural way of lighting the houses of the American colonists, both in the North and South, was by the pine-knots of the fat pitch-pine, which, of course, were found everywhere in the greatest plenty in the forests.”
“At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.”
“I invented nothing new. I simply combined the inventions of others into a car. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed.”
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“If at first you do succeed, quit trying on investing.”
“If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.”
“There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.”