每一个实验，即使是失败的，也会教会你一些有价值的东西。
Every experiment, even the ones that fail, teaches you something valuable.
宁要知识不要财富，因为一个是短暂的，另一个是永恒的。
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.