how can you dismiss someone's success as due to it? I don't think it's being dismissed as due to it, so much as it's acknowledging the near-necessity of it to

how can you dismiss someone's success as due to it? I don't think it's being dismissed as due to it, so much as it's acknowledging the near-necessity of it to attain success. Gates went to a high school where the parents pooled money in order to buy mainframe time for their kids. Gates was seeing a therapist, which helped him focus and mature faster. He had the support to start a fairly wild venture with a friend. Gates is incredibly intelligent, focused, disciplined, and was in the right place at the right time. If I were in his shoes, I wouldn't have succeeded. Not because I lacked the resources, but because I'd have found the idea of writing a BASIC interpreter to be boring and wouldn't have seen it through. But I also probably wouldn't have had access to the technology necessary in the first place...