>Don't know much about how Edison or Zuckerberg got where they did, but Gates had extraordinary opportunities as a kid that gave him thousands of hours of computer use at a time when most people had none. He didn't just wake up one day and become a computer genius; he had years of training.


Zuckerberg went to Harvard. That probably doesn't count as an extraordinary opportunity, though, huh?

Anyways, millions of hackers had that kind of training.

Most of them don't have the big ideas or the motivation to shape reality.

The reason not everyone in the world, even people with educations from good schools, is a mover and shaker on Gates' kind of level:

- It's easier to complain about the world than to shape it, so most people never try all that hard