Bill Gates – Eclecticism

Puzzle time

December 10, 2019June 4, 2004 by Michael Hanscom

I figured it out in under a minute (my first guess was half right, three subsequent rolls allowed me to fine tune and confirm the answer).

If you know the answer, please don’t spoil the fun for others. Let ’em figure it out for themselves. ;)

Related: Bill Gates and Petals Around the Rose at a 1977 computer conference. Memorizing dice rolls. Fascinating.

(via MeFi)

Heaven forbid that happen!

November 21, 2019May 3, 2001 by Michael Hanscom

Imagine the disincentive to software development if after months of work another company could come along and copy your work and market it under its own name…without legal restraints to such copying, companies like Apple could not afford to advance the state of the art.

— Bill Gates, 1983 (New York Times, 25 Sep 1983, pg. F2)