Copy & Paste a Page from Bill’s Book

In honor of the world’s most famous businessman’s retirement, let’s take some advice from one of Bill Gate’s eight TIME magazine cover stories:

"His success stems from his personality: an awesome and at times frightening blend of brilliance, drive, competitiveness and personal intensity… Part of what makes him so enigmatic is the nature of his intellect. Wander the Microsoft grounds, press the Bill button in conversation and hear it described in computer terms: he has "incredible processing power" and "unlimited bandwidth," an agility at "parallel processing" and "multitasking." Watch him at his desk, and you see what they mean. He works on two computers, one with four frames that sequence data streaming in from the Internet, the other handling the hundreds of E-mail messages and memos that extend his mind into a network. He can be so rigorous as he processes data that one can imagine his mind may indeed be digital: no sloppy emotions or analog fuzziness, just trillions of binary impulses coolly converting input into correct answers."

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