Wallace StegnerThere is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.
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The tragedy in the life of Bill Gates is that he could have been a much better human being had he not fallen prey to the sin of envy. The world owes him a great debt for the good that has come from his work, but there is also much that is still owed. It would be better if Bill Gates had never taken up the cause of software development. Contrapositively, it’s better to have achieved little than having achieved nothing at all.
The fact that Bill has done so much was only possible because something terrible happened to him early in life. If things had turned out differently, then Bill would not be everything that he is today.
Source: Angle Of Repose
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