Bill Gates: $56 Billion Grad
Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:05PM EDT
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Finally. Bill Gates will pick up his sheepskin, 32 years after dropping out of Harvard to start his own business. Maybe now he'll make something of himself. Get a job. Save a little somethin' toward retirement ...
Harvard has invited Gates, who would have been Class of '77 had he stuck it out, to deliver the 356th commencement speech on June 7. There, he will receive an honorary degree, though Harvard isn't saying what the degree is in until graduation day. Engadget wagers it's not Phys Ed.
Wow, first knighthood by Queen Elizabeth last March. Now, a college degree, just in time for Gates to ... retire. Gates will step down as chairman of Microsoft to devote his energies full time to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in July.
Hmmm. No college degree = billionaire. Not an easily repeated feat, tempting as it may be. Kids, don't try this at home. Dropping out of college generally doesn't lead to knighthood and $56 billion in net worth.
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2 Posted by brianvand2004 on Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:41PM EDT Report Abuse
I think BG is a great guy
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3 Posted by dccorporation@sbcglobal.net on Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:39PM EDT Report Abuse
I think Bill Gates is a great person to from all he has accomplished and helped this world in many ways.
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4 Posted by nic_cojocaru on Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:19AM EDT Report Abuse
The March 23 article on BG stepping down from MS reminds me, mainly, of an old human sickness: bitter envy. I find it worth to quote some lines from a famous Robert Greene book: "Only a minority can succeed at the game of life, and that minority inevitably arouses the envy of those around them. Once success happens your way, however, the people to fear the most are those in your own circle, the friends and acquaintances you have left behind. Feelings of inferiority gnaw at them; the thought of your success only heightens their feelings of stagnation. Envy, which the philosopher Kierkegaard calls "unhappy admiration," takes hold." ................ "The human animal has a hard time dealing with feelings of inferiority. In the face of superior skill, talent, or power, we are often disturbed and ill at ease; this is because most of us have an inflated sense of ourselves, and when we meet people who surpass us they make it clear to us that we are in fact mediocre, or at least not as brilliant as we had thought. This disturbance in our self-image cannot last long without stirring up ugly emotions. At first we feel envy: If only we had the quality or skill of the superior person, we would be happy. But envy brings us neither comfort nor any closer to equality. Nor can we admit to feeling it, for it is frowned upon socially to show envy is to admit to feeling inferior. To close friends, we may confess our secret unrealized desires, but we will never confess to feeling envy. So it goes underground. We disguise it in many ways, like finding grounds to criticize the person who makes us feel it: He may be smarter than I am, we say, but he has no morals or conscience. Or he may have more power, but that's because he cheats. If we do not slander him, perhaps we praise him excessively-another of envy's disguises." Regarding BG achievements I would rather say: kids, try this at home, at school or everywhere.
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1 Posted by joviesison on Mon Mar 26, 2007 9:57AM EDT Report Abuse
A college degree signifies an accomplishment in academic terms. This is a step in establishing one's credibility in the real world. But new studies such as emmotional intelligence is explaining why a college degree is not a requisite for success, nor does its absense mean certain failure. Mr. Bill Gates is what he is because he did not need the trappings of a college diploma to go out and proclaim his message to the world.