Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

- Bill Gates

Random Fact

In High School, Bill Gates school discovered Gates’ coding abilities, they let him write the school’s computer program for scheduling students in classes. Gates then altered the code so he was placed in classes with an interesting number of interesting girls.

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