Saturday, January 02, 2010

On Not Knowing Everything

Take some time today and read Hugh Macleod's post: "Don't worry if you don't know 'absolutely everything' before starting out." An excerpt:

I love this story about Bill Gates: Some years ago, when the com­pany he foun­ded, Mic­ro­soft was at the height of its powers, he was giving a lec­ture to some college stu­dents. When the the Ques­tion & Ans­wers came along, a keen under­gra­duate asked the ques­tion, “What advice would you give to a young per­son like me who wants to make a lot of money some day?”

Gates’ ans­wer was as won­der­ful as it was short: “For Good­ness’ sake, don’t do what I did. That money’s already been made by me.”

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