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now let me ask this: is Gates smarter and harder working in proportion to his wealth than Knuth ?
by Uhuhreally 7y ago
now let me ask this: is Gates smarter and harder working in proportion to his wealth than Knuth ?
- mav3rick 7y agoHow does it matter ? You may be both but unlucky or not market your skills.
- Uhuhreally 7y agobecause he has been awarded by the putative meritocratic competition a vast sum of money for his mediocre operating system
- mav3rick 7y agoWohoo Year of the Linux Desktop. Best Desktop OS ever.
- kamyarg 7y agoIn various points in the documentary he points out how lucky he was for: - having a good family - having good environment that mostly ignored his stubbornness and let him grow - how lucky he was to be good in math and engineering - coming from a well off family - having a mother to push him to outside of his comfort zone(She was also in various boards so could teach the politics of leading people) - having friends that helped him get better at understanding the computers. Being smart is only one parameter in his success, he wouldn't have been so good if they hadn't given him the chance to program at private school he went to for solving the school scheduling problem for example. IMO Comparing Knuth to Gates is the case of apples and oranges, most important reason being Knuth was born in 1938 and Bill Gates was born in 1955, Gates was in his prime years when the personal computer revolution was beginning.