And Risk

• On the topic of luck and risk:

  • "Bill Gates went to one of the only high schools in the world (Lakeside) that had a computer... Most university graduate schools did not have a computer anywhere near as advanced as Bill Gates had access to in eighth grade. One in a million high-school-age students attended the high school that had the combination of cash and foresight to buy a computer. Bill Gates happened to be one of them." - ref

  • By properly acknowledge extreme rare luck we can also properly acknowledge extreme rare risk:

    Kent Evans was a close friend of Bill Gates and a fellow member of the Lakeside Programmers Club. He was considered highly intelligent and was one of Gates' earliest programming partners. Unfortunately, he died in a mountaineering accident before graduating high school.