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Created by dipity on Dec 4, 2008
Last updated: 08/24/11 at 06:27 PM
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...scholar Henry Louis Gates, left, listens as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, right, speaks during a forum on education during at National Urban League annual conference in Boston, Thursday, July 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates,...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Vendor
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/bill-gates-poverty-not-1054579.html
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...always easy to explain, says Rijsberman, because anything having to do with human waste provokes a "yuck factor." (See Bill Gates in his younger years.) Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of those concerned are far from convinced that it's a good idea to...
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Time Magazine
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/time/world/~3/IrbasB-_A9w/0,8599,2082509,00.html
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...the small business owners of Astoria to announce the start of the phase out plan for solid roll-down gates on Thursday. The bill, banning solid metal roll-down gates, goes into effect Friday, and was passed for both safety and aesthetic reasons. “See-through...
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The Epoch Times
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/united-states/solid-metal-gates-getting-phased-out-58518.html
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...are satanic nazis Still stinging from his failure to induce global mass suicide via the Vista upgrade, demonic geekofascist Bill Gates has declared a jihad against our spermatazoan and ova brothers and sisters. That's what esteemed patriot intellectual Alex...
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Jesus' General
http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2010/07/bill-gates-wants-to-shrivel-our.html
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And I think Bill Gates' net worth is too high. Put a cap on Bill Gates and MSFT!
He may be rich, but he's still fugly and has a small peen.
This is coming from the guy who's greatest contribution is Excel 2003.
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DealBreaker
http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=8747889f0d0519c0f18e4be61ab72b1a
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(CNET)
This story was written by CNET's Ina Fried
Describing both the need for improvements in global health and the technologies that could create those gains, Bill Gates on Tuesday characterized himself as an "impatient optimist."
For those that
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CBS News
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/27/tech/cnettechnews/main5427836.shtml
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By LIBBY QUAID and DONNA BLANKINSHIP
Associated Press Writers
Copyright 2009, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The
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Rocky Mount Telegram
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/National/US_Bill_Gates_Education_Influence.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=1&cxcat=0
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates, left, with his father, Bill Gates Sr., at the family's compound along the Hood Canal near Seattle.
UNION, Wash. Everywhere he goes, Bill Gates is escorted by a mythic résumé. Mercenary software genius. Self-made
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USA Today
http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-TechTopStories/~3/s7RGGVP6zAQ/2009-08-27-billgates_N.htm
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I have about one gazillionth the $$ that Bill Gates does, but can all the money in the world control hurricanes?
The basic idea is to cool the water underneath tropical cyclones, depriving them of some of their energy source.
This isn't the first
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The Weather Channel
http://www.weather.com/blog/weather/8_19894.html cm_ven=\"BLOG\" cm_cat=\"rss\" cm_pla=\"blog\" cm_ite=\"8_19894\" par=\"BLOG_rss\" site=\"blog\" from=\"blog_rss\"
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Chicago (IL) Bill Gates watched his father Bill Gates as he received the countrys most prestigious legal award at a ceremony in Chicago yesterday. The American Bar Association (ABA) gave Gates Sr, the award to highlight his pro bono work over the
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Tom's Hardware Guide
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tgdaily_all_sections/~3/DoIxoUFv3Ro/
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Who Was Richard Feynman and How Did He Motivate Bill Gates?
Richard Feynman, an American physicist, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his role in the development of quantum electrodynamics. While on vacation 20 years ago, Bill Gates saw
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1977064/bill_gates_and_project_tuva.html
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Just because you're the person who helped ensure that almost every person in the world has access to a computer, it doesn't mean you want to spend all your time on one. This week, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the world's richest man
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1986110/bill_gates_quits_facebook_10000_people.html
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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Saturday received the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development from India's president, a government statement said.
Standing right to left are Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, Indian
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Taiwan News
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1013564&lang=eng_news&cate_img=35.jpg&cate_rss=news_Business_WORLD
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Bill Gates: Better data mean better schools
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. must improve its educational standing in the world by rewarding effective teaching and developing better, universal measures of performance for students and teachers, Microsoft
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Simple Thoughts
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/bill-gates-better-data-on-student-teacher-performance-will-raise-achievement-in-us-schools/
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Microsoft founder billionaire Bill Gates has already put into play the hurricane patent to control hurricane weather by controlling the sea. But what has unfolded from that moment?
Bill Gates begins to promote his Category 5 idea as skeptics begin to
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1961818/billionaire_bill_gates_one_step_closer.html
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Americans in Paris: Bill Gates, in France with his family for part of the summer, is joined by his father on the balcony at the legendary Hôtel de Crillon.
After a bleak 2008, equities are looking up. But whatever the market, our trademark long-term
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CNN/Money
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/money_mostpopular/~3/IueTczaotVg/index.htm
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Americans in Paris: Bill Gates, in France with his family for part of the summer, is joined by his father on the balcony at the legendary Hôtel de Crillon.
After a bleak 2008, equities are looking up. But whatever the market, our trademark long-term
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CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/money/2009/06/21/technology/best_advice_bill_gates.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2009062107&eref=edition
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By John R. Wilke This article was published on Sept. 18, 1998. They don't let just anybody into Augusta National Golf Club. Ask Bill Gates.You'd think Microsoft Corp.'s chairman, the world's wealthiest duffer, would fit right in at the exclusive club,
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB906008880358760000.html#mod=WSJ_topics_obama
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At 8:52AM on 23 July 2009, Dr. Shahid Kamal Malik wrote:
Bill Gates contribution in eradicating Polio are commendable. He is doing humanitarian services in Asia, Africa and where ever needed. Rotary International must be proud to have him on Rotary's
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Rotary International
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/rotary/PBqj/~3/cuMtzToPLNE/090311_news_seattlecentennial.aspx
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...as saying, “Every now and then I look at my friends and say, ‘Ooh, I wouldn’t mind having that iPhone.’ “ However, she and Bill Gates — who co-founded the Microsoft empire, which of course is the arch enemy of Apple — have a policy against iPods and iPhones. “There...
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Atlanta Journal Constitution
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http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/stories/2009/03/04/gates_ipod_iphone.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6
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...soon as Bill Gates sends that check to everyone for that email tracking software that we all got 10 years ago. Microsoft and Bill Gates are giving millions to people who had nothing to do with the Company's success. Maybe its time for them to take care of...
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Newsvine
http://business.newsvine.com/_news/2009/02/23/2468402-microsoft-seeks-money-from-laid-off-workers
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...the job of the people who worked for him to completely ignore what he said. Why is this guy modded troll? He's quoting what Bill Gates himself said (and was included in the submission over half a year ago) and then the point he makes is completely valid. Either...
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Slashdot
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/oOFBawyCOvo/article.pl
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...has heard of the infamous Bill Gates beta test email. But, if you are one of the few who have not, let me enlighten you. The Bill Gates, AOL, MSN, or other Internet giants beta test is total, complete, absolute fiction. It is an urban legend in its own right! An...
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Associated Content
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1462320/the_famous_bill_gates_beta_test_email.html
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...Gates, who supposedly scored 1590 on the SAT (which is equivalent now that the maximum has been raised to 2400 and scoring made easier, to about, oh, roughly, a million today), is, notoriously, the World's Biggest IQ Snob in his personal business (at which...
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Steve Sailer-Articles & Blog on Human Biodiversity, Genetics
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Steve_Sailer_iSteve_Archives/~3/533748910/bill-gates-vs-bill-gates.html
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...have seen numerous blinged out gadgets and phones, it is rare to see what gizmos presidents play with. Earlier this month, Bill Gates gifted South Korea president Lee Myung-bak with "Peace", a… In a good news/bad news speech (you decide) Bill Gates, forecasted...
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Trend Hunter
http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/bill-gates-ted2009
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...Davos, Switzerland, Friday Jan 30, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) Co-Chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USA, Bill Gates, right, and Melinda Gates, sit together prior to an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Friday...
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Taiwan News
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=853487&lang=eng_news&cate_img=317.jpg&cate_rss=news_Features
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...$19.9 billion to these issues. As of October 1, 2008 the foundation's endowment totaled $35.1 billion. To obtain a copy of Bill Gates' first Annual Letter, visit www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter. To download audio files of Gates reading excerpts of...
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PR-Inside.com
http://www.pr-inside.com/bill-gates-publishes-first-annual-letter-r1026490.htm
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...extended his hand. He was small and almost ashen, but seemed lively. He seemed alive. Perhaps after all the jibes and scorn, Bill Gates was not a robot after all. (Speaking to the richest man in the world and discovering him just another guy ended up being...
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Boing Boing
http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/gadgets/~3/465423434/interviewing-bill-ga.html
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...look into. Also it will be a training school for Bulldozer drivers. I doubt it. In any event, you'd have to be richer than Bill Gates to find out. She has a relationship with Bill Gates, so I would have to say that it is pretty clear she does, even if she...
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Slashdot
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/msc5LBhvDgI/article.pl
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...want to congratulate Bill Gates on his new company, bgC3. I assume it stands for "Bill Gates Creates 3X His Current Wealth." He left off the "hcw" since that would have made the company's name a bit unwieldy. Reports say it's a think tank. One over-cooked...
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PC Magazine
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2333170,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03129TX1K0000624
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...with the "3" denoting the number of companies Bill has founded to date. Then there are some others who think it stands for Bill Gates Company Three: If you happen to be unaware, apart from Microsoft, Bill has also found Corbis -- the photo licensing agency...
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Techtree.com
http://www.techtree.com/India/News/And_You_Thought_Bill_Gates_had_Retired/551-94428-547.html
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...casts a John Hodgman clone in a new spot. NEW YORK Two weeks after Microsoft debuted spots pairing chairman Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld, the company revealed that those ads were designed to tease a branding effort that strives to redefine the image...
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AdWeek
http://adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3if0f83346ff54253cb553117b6810a9fc?imw=Y
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...the ad below: SEATTLE (AP) - TV viewers can return to their favorite programs without fear of seeing Bill Gates shaking his tushie now that Microsoft Corp. has retired a bizarre two-week-old ad campaign featuring the software giant's...
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Starpulse
http://www.starpulse.com/news/index.php/2008/09/19/jerry_seinfeld_bill_gates_yield_stage_to
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...juncture because Microsoft needs to paint itself as a more likable company). Instead, I don't like this ad because it paints Bill Gates as the geeky rich man that he is. And for an ad that's trying to change a company's image, that's unacceptable. When I watch...
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CNET
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-10040441-17.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1001_3-0-5
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...Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft on June 27, 2008 to dedicate more time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Together with Melinda, who is also increasing her presence at the foundation, Bill is focused on raising global awareness of the foundation's...
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The Daily Source
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/thedailysource/~3/348763858/bill-gates-transition-microsoft-foundation.htm
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...between Bill Gates' name and an insect in Costa Rica. Not many details are available about Eristalis gatesi, or the Bill Gates Flower Fly, as this is more an item of novelty because of the label than anything else. However, on the Diptera website, courtesy...
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Softpedia
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Introducing-the-Bill-Gates-Fly-89931.shtml
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...tax increase. I like turtles. I also like Word. Don't be so pessimistic. Buy an iPhone 3G and cheer up. The future is now. "Bill Gates' reign at the top of tech plunged the computing world into a new dark age that only the Internet, Apple, Google, and Linux...
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MacDailyNews
http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/bill_gates_leaving_microsoft_good_riddance/
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...- People always ask what I really think about Bill Gates. Sometimes it’s a test, to see if I share their view that he’s the scourge of techville. Other times it’s an opening line for someone who wants to gripe about problems with a computer or a Hotmail account. By...
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Boston Herald
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/bostonherald/~3/330638691/view.bg
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...This amounts to a total of over 180 million years of effective spiritual practice in Earth years before being born as Bill Gates in this lifetime. What is the purpose of Bill Gates birth on Earth? Bill Gates due to his ample spiritual practice in previous...
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Buzzle
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/spiritual-research-on-the-spiritual-life-of-bill-gates.html
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...here. If you have questions or suggestions for this series please email Conor Clarke at conorjclarke [at] gmail [dot] com. Bill Gates' speech on creative capitalism was misguided in two important ways -- it made a false accusation about traditional capitalism,...
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Huffington Post
http://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=c054b16afcaae1e40188d0376caca9be
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Good luck Bill Gates. Save the world for us. Enjoy your time.
Hats off to Bill Gates, who is enjoying his first week as a retiree, leaving day-to-day responsibilities at Micrsoft to run a foundation with his wife, Melinda.
I wouldn't go so far as to
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080701/BLOG01/80701019/1002/RSS02
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...of this philanthropic work is an attempt to simply generate good PR. But that simply doesn't follow the facts. The truth is, Bill Gates doesn't just come from a family tradition of philanthropy: It's actually a significant part of the reason he got the single...
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Waxy.org Links
http://www.dashes.com/anil/2008/06/bill-gates-and-the-greatest-tech-hack-ever.html
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...in The Open Road by Matt Asay) June 26, 2008 2:40 p.m. PDT video News.com's Ina Fried and Kara Tsuboi take a look back at Bill Gates' career and serve up some highlights from his recent speeches. June 24, 2008 5:52 p.m. PDT Technology insiders say their...
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Malaysia Sun
http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/d805653303cbbba8/id/15874726/
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...Friday, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at Microsoft, the company he founded more than 30 years ago, to begin working at the charitable foundation he and his wife Melinda started in 2000. Gates, as many have been quick to point out, made a lot of money...
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Comment Is Free - Guardian Unlimited
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/30/billgates.internationalaidanddevelopment?gusrc=rss&feed=commentisfree
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...slaving away for another 20 years to pay for my kids’ education, I see two lessons from this experience. The first is that Bill Gates usually got things right, as long as you gave him enough time to let the market catch up. That was his singular gift, and...
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ZDNet
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Greenbaum/?p=171
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...Potential. Given the first to-do on my list every week is to survive, I can't see that as a bad thing. So, the post-Bill Gates Microsoft may be vastly better partly because of Bill's philanthropic legacy, but partly because of the butt-kicking the company...
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TechNewsWorld
http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/63604.html
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...someone by appearances. Misreading the gangly kid from Seattle with big glasses cost IBM tens of billions. The story of Bill Gates should also be a reminder to have patience with our children, even when they're obnoxious, and have faith that they'll end up...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoft/2008024683_brier30.html?syndication=rss
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...he uses his own money for his business interests and leaves the taxpayers out of it. We had Ford, Rockefeller, Edison. Bill Gates will be one more addition to the list of the greats Gates is the rare individual who gets to change the world twice. First, with...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008024689_btdownload30.html?syndication=rss
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...room just outside his office suite. Later this summer, Ballmer will move into the office of longtime friend and colleague Bill Gates, also on the top floor of Building 34 on Microsoft's Redmond campus. Ballmer talked about the transition, his three-decade-plus...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008023282_ballmerqa29.html?syndication=rss
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...Gates was a one-of-a-kind piece of work. Just ask the man who was paid to copy him. You stand before 3,500 booing Silicon Valley techies. They're hissing because of who you are — the richest man in the universe. And what you represent — an domineering...
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/dannywestneat/2008023601_danny29.html?syndication=rss
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