adrian cristino

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May 20, 1999, on How to Become As Rich As Bill Gates:
Let's face it - Gates has more luck in any given year than most people have in a lifetime. Fortune is, after all, a lady -- and chicks love giving it up to those who have the most options, and thus, need it the least. IBM: Duh, so you say you can come up with a script? In only a few months? You've been working on this and you actually have something? Gates: Uh, yeah, we're almost done with it. Can we have some of the money up front? IBM: Can we see some of what you've been working on? Gates: No, just take my word for it. Give us the money now. IBM: Duh, ok. And that moron who sold him DOS? Moron: "Wow, I can't believe someone wants to pay me $65K for this crap. Wait a minute, maybe if someone's willing to pay me this much, maybe something important's going on that I don't know about. Maybe ... Nah. Wow! $65K! I can buy a lot of Mad magazines for that! Maybe even a Corvette! Wow!" Proof that Gates is dense: December 1996: Friend and I look...