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...most famous businessman in the world or the smartest guy alive, but I've got no respect for him. If what you described is the real Gates, I feel sorry for him. Someone who is blessed with such intelligence and wealth yet doesn't acknowledge that these gifts come from God is someone who is living a worthless life. ROZA AHMAD Kuantan, Malaysia
...everyone quickly points out that Gates is "the smartest guy I've ever met." Yet he gets locked out of his $40 million house and stuck in the yard, doesn't wear a seat belt while driving recklessly and thinks his daughter is "just beginning to develop a personality." He doesn't have the courtesy to offer a guest a soft drink when he serves himself, leaves his wife for an annual weekend with his former girlfriend and is loud in restaurants. With cold arrogance, Gates incorrectly equates intelligence with being smart, and being smart with being good. Your portrayal...
...because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading." He won't even cop a plea to the charge that Microsoft tends to react to competitors' ideas--the graphical interface of Apple, the Web browser of Netscape--more than it blazes new trails of its own. "Graphical interfaces were done first at Xerox, not Apple. We bet on them early on, which is why Microsoft Office applications became the best...
...mathematics." They took graduate-level math and economics courses together, but Gates had an odd approach toward his classes: he would skip the lectures of those he was taking and audit the lectures of those he wasn't, then spend the period before each exam cramming. "He's the smartest guy I've ever met," says Ballmer, 40, continuing the unbroken sequence of people who make that point early in an interview...
...think you're jealous. Not only is Clinton one of the smartest, most capable, most likable Presidents we have ever had, he is also the most photogenic. It doesn't matter what he wears; he still looks like a million. Eat your heart out! EMMA LOU DIEMER Santa Barbara, California...