and having fun‚ which can prevent them from learning about history’s great thinkers. Great thinkers have been around for thousands of years. They range from Confucius (551-471 BC) and Plato (428 to c. 348 BC) to more modern great thinkers of Bill Gates (1955-present) and Richard Rorty (1931-2007). According to "Do You Have The Traits Of Great Thinkers And Innovators Who Shaped The World" (2009)‚ most great thinkers tend to display a certain set of characteristics such as open mindedness‚ sense of
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Bill Gates‚ as Chairman of Microsoft‚ has been a leader of the information revolution for a quarter century now. He‚ in partnership with Paul Allen‚ founded Microsoft because they saw an opportunity to use a new technology to change the way business is done. They had a vision that computer technology could be used to benefit and transform society and‚ of course‚ the business world. I use the term business in a general sense. All aspects of modern human interaction use information technology to conduct
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crucial to Microsoft is its recruitment style. Microsoft is only interested in the best‚ to the point where they prefer to leave a position vacant rather than settle for someone who just gets by. This practice began with Microsoft’s founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen‚ who would recruit the best minds from the colleges and confirm they are the best through an interview process that relentlessly tested their pure intellect. The recruitment was not only selective‚ it was aggressive. When growth in
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of Ballmer′s recent change to MS′s human resource polices and practices? Gate had long recognized that it took exceptional people to write outstanding software. The importance of recruiting well was constantly reinforced by Gates. He thought the most intelligent twenty employees make MS the best. It was effective because Gate considered about people who he hired‚ like graduated young kids. Thorough all the growth‚ Gates worked hard to keep alive the feeling of a small company. He continually restructured
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Harvard Business School 9-392-019 Rev. July 8. 1993 Bill Gates and the Management of Microsoft Despite the fact that we’ve been successful financially‚ there’s an ongoing need to anticipate where this industry is going‚ and to be at the forefront of changing the products. And this is every bit as challenging as it’s ever been--and perhaps more so. Bill Gates‚ Microsoft Chairman and CEO‚ 1991 On June 30‚ 1991‚ Microsoft Corporation closed the books on another year of dazzling growth. Revenues for
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates Most people find it difficult to differentiate‚ between Steve Jobs from Bill Gates. Therefore‚ I am going to give a brief explanation about their ideas. After this‚ I will compare both of their backgrounds and their appearances in order to distinguish them. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are definitely smart; they have both built huge companies and earned a lot of money. Throughout time Steve Jobs and Bill Gates have had very good ideas about computers. In fact‚ Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates: An Important Visionary For Better or Worse by Blake Noonan Having an imagination is a virtue. Imagining an entirely new way to communicate and interact with others through a machine is amazing in itself. Bill Gates is not only the richest man in the world‚ but some consider him as the most ingenious too. Others see him as a monopolizing‚ money hungry nerd. William Gates III was born in Seattle‚ Washington in 1955. When he was thirteen‚ he wrote his first software program
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CHAPTER 2 BINARY CODE 2.1 History of Binary Code: Binary numbers were first described in Chandashutram written by Pingala around 300 B.C. Binary Code was first introduced by the English mathematician and philosopher Eugene Paul Curtis during the 17th century. Curtis was trying to find a system that converts logic’s verbal statements into a pure mathematical one. After his ideas were ignored‚ he came across a classic Chinese text called I Ching or Book of Changes‚ which used a type of binary code
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Reaction Paper * Biography of Steve Jobs & Bill Gates * Brief description of Apple & Microsoft Company * Sypnosis of the story * Reaction * Moral Lesson Alyssa Flor F. Llait Mrs. J. Verzosa VIII – Einstein ICT - Biography of Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24‚ 1955 in
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Microsoft with Bill Gates in the screen (details of this scene was showed later on in the film). Then the film featured a flashback on the younger days of Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak where they are shown to be caught up in a riot between students and police officers and running in the opposite direction of the tide of people. The movie then proceeds to narrate the events that led to the development of the first Apple computer. The film also features the nerd character of Bill Gates who was then a nobody
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