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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11 |
| Subject | Re: Source Code: My Beginnings |
| Date | 2025-02-07 23:10 -0500 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vo6ld8$3t8h1$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <vo6i44$2gl41$1@paganini.bofh.team> |
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On 2/7/2025 10:00 PM, Book Review wrote: > Has anybody bought this book yet? > > <https://www.amazon.co.uk/Source-Code-Beginnings-Bill-Gates/dp/0241736676> > > Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. There are probably 10000 people more interesting to me than Bill Gates. He's very bright, but also arrogantly thinks he's a genius, offering his unimpressive opinions on all sorts of topics, as though he's an official wise man. He's clearly got a head for business, but exhibited endless greed. He then turned to philanthropy, ever desperate to be an amazing person. He tried to take over education and health care in the process. I'm not aware of even one small thing that Bill Gates has ever done to truly serve others. To his credit, I'm not sure I would have been more humble and humane if I'd made 1/4 trillion dollars and had no shortage of people who worshipped me. Nevertheless, I see absolutely nothing to be impressed by and certainly not an example for others to follow. I really don't understand why people so often equate great greed, competitiveness and wealth with greatness. King of the hill is a game for children and barbarians. I actually find Steve Ballmer more interesting. He's quirky and seems to truly try to be decent. I once saw an interview where he said that if not for computers he probably would have been a siding salesman. I expect it's the same with Gates. In another time he would have been lucky to be an accountant or small time lawyer. If he'd been born in a rural, pre-industrial setting then he probably never would have even been fit to leave home, being so poorly suited to physical labor. Ballmer had the humility to admit his good luck. So, no, I don't expect to buy Bill's autobiography.
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