What would Bill Gates be without that Computer and Magazine?
While reading the book, 'The Psychology of Money', I came across these two lines: "Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools in the world that had a computer" "During one of their late-night sessions, Allen recalled Gates showing him a Fortune magazine." And this got me thinking: Would Bill Gates be "Bill Gates" if he had not got access to THAT computer at Lakeside? Would Microsoft have been born if two kids (Bill & Paul) did not have access and end up reading THAT Fortune magazine? Ofcourse, Bill Gates himself answered the question in a way. " If there had been no Lakeside, there would have been no Microsoft ", he told the school's graduating class in 2005. Me Then I started to think: As a kid, even I had early access to a computer when in the year 1995, my elder brother got home a 386 computer! I would randomly play around with some games and some design tools. Pretty sure this helped me later i...