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Bill Gates at Harvard (2013)
- ziyao_w 11y agoChristos Papadimitriou mentioned Bill Gates in this interview: http://awards.acm.org/info/papadimitriou_4558987.cfm http://awards.acm.org/info/papadimitriou_4558987.cfm. Quote: "I remember thinking: "Such a brilliant kid. What a waste."" I wonder what would happen if Gates went on to become an academic while Papadimitriou an entrepreneur. Maybe in some parallel universe.
- sotojuan 11y agoI'm willing to say the same thing about Richard Stallman (replace entrepreneur with activist, of course).
- zappo2938 11y agoI wonder if the author thought the same thing I did looking at Bill Gates' picture. Oh, look, Bill Gates is in the original Facebook.
- blueside 11y agoand showing a contrast of fate/luck, the man in the picture beside Bill Gates, Lawrence Gaynor, died from cancer when he 40.
- neogodless 11y ago"The goal was to get the program into less than the 4K of memory that an enhanced Altair would have, so there would be a little room left over for the consumer to use. (A 16GB smartphone has four million times that memory.) " facepalm
- matthewbauer 11y agoIs Harvard proud of its "billionaire dropouts"? For anyone less successful I would think there would be some uneasiness in showcasing someone who never earned a degree. I mean when someone drops out it obviously means that the conventional university path failed them. This seems like a weird message to put in a school magazine. I guess Harvard can say that they at least helped Bill Gates on his path to founding Microsoft but they certainly can't claim them as one of their own?
- saeranv 11y agoThe thing is, the article makes it clear that the computer resources and social connections Gates had at Harvard were key to his success.