Bill Gates: “People often talk about this as the Internet service revolution. That will eventually lead to machines that have lots of server capacity, lots of low-cost computing, low-cost storage. And that will let us write software in an even more ambitious way, eliminating the last constraints we have.”
Umm. Hello Cloud Computing? Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud???
I expect Bill Gates to make a comeback at Microsoft after Ballmer mess it even more… Just like Dell and Yahoo…
As I look back, I think that Gates’ “constructive monopolism” most closely parallels Thomas Edison’s. They both created pretty good technologies and then worked, using many means, to get them accepted by more users than their competitors. Tesla and Jobs are two sides of the same coin.
http://blogs.forrester.com/colony/2008/06/bill-gates-lega.html
Douche Bag
But once Gates leaves as a full-time employee, “I’m not going to need him for anything. That’s the principle,” Ballmer told the Journal earlier this month . “Use him, yes, need him, no.”
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Bill Gates in his own words!
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/storysupplement/gates_microsoft/index.html
Bill Gates
1967
Gates, a difficult sixth grader, asks his mother, “Have you ever tried thinking?”
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/st_billgates