I'm not a product of the record industry. I'm a product of my own imagination.

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with， or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.

It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy. But the point is, it doesn't feel that way. It's made to feel, by magazines and other media outlets, that if you've got energy, a few bright ideas about technology, a garage -- you, too, could start a major thing.