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People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t
they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines…. There will always
be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to
accept their silicon masters.

—Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft and philanthropist

Man is emotional, and quickly carried forward upon waves of popular
excitement; and it is these great tidal waves of emotion that mark the
revolutionary changes throughout history.

—King Gillette, founder of Gillette Safety Razor Co.

Opportunity + Preparation = Luck…. People see other’s successes and they
think, oh, they’re just lucky. Nobody is ever lucky, trust me. Sure, things happen
to people. There’s stories everywhere of people who’ve been toiling away and
all of a sudden, they get the dream job they’ve always wanted; or their business
idea suddenly takes off and they make millions. We look at that and think,
they’re lucky. No honey, they’re not lucky. They were prepared.

—As told to Betty Liu by her television coach

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the
one most responsive to change.

—Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution