I read an ABC interview between Peter Jennings and Bill Gates last night and just loved some of the questions and answers. Bill Gates has lost none of his competitiveness and seems to want to rewrite history in his favor... I mean c'mon Bill. You didn't create the PC industry. Let's get real here. Microsoft had an important role to play, but you were just one part of it and in the beginning you were one of many. A lot of luck made you who you are today. I'm sure the boys over at Slashdot are ripping you to shreds right now. Anyway here are some of my favorite quotes:
Gates: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry.
Jennings: But, it isn't hard for you is it to stand back and compliment somebody else?
Jennings: I've heard some people say that if they were graduating from science or technology today, they'd rather work for [Steve] Jobs than Microsoft. Why do you think that might be true?
Jennings: When I said to somebody the other day that you at Microsoft had always said we will continue to be the innovators of technology this person who was young and a techie said "Oh they've never innovators they buy other people's material, they expropriate other people's knowledge and adapt it into their business." I don't understand that completely, but is there some truth in that?
Gates: Well the biggest thing we did was we invented the field.
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