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3 :,„ 10:56:01 -0700 Message-Id: <9310081756.AA27745@ netmail.microsoft.com> X- Msmail-Message-Id: 15305A55 X-Msmail-Conversation-Id: 15305A55 From: Bill Gates To: [email protected] For years after the telephone was invented, in 1876, people thought it was a device that would transmit news, drama,
ther with it. It's ridiculous to consider how things will be remembered after you arc dead. The S.,\ pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are:\ z ejv all great people but I don't think any of us will merit an entry in a history book. I don't remember being wou
or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,
together with it. It's ridiculous to consider how things will be remembered after you are dead. The pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are all great people but = don't think any of us will merit an entry in a history book. I don't remember being wounded or
or face to face, as I discovered while I was =working on this story. Sitting at my computer one day, I realized that I could try to communicate with Bill Gates, the chairman and co- founder =of the software giant Microsoft, on the information highway. At least, I could send E-mail to his electronic address,
together with it. It's ridiculous to consider how things will be remembered after you are dead. The pioneers of personal computers including Jobs, Kapor, Lampson, Roberts, Kaye, are all great people but = don't think any of us will merit an entry in a history book. I don't remember being wounded or
o the extent there were membership cards in the New Caste, Danny’s would have had a very low number. It was an easy decision for our prize committee. No Bill Gates. No Steve Jobs. So, here’s how | met Danny Hillis: I called to tell him he had won a million dollars. (I recommend this as a way to start a friendshi
the first successful computer spreadsheet program in 1983, software that permitted you to see and change your whole business one keystroke at a time. Kapor’s software helped move finance from quarter-by-quarter calculations to a really instant-by-instant sort of business - more or less the opposite of th
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