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True Bill Gates Story

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This entry was posted on 6/16/2006 3:12 AM and is filed under Miscellaneous.


As told by Martin Davis:

A woman heading a research group on theoretical computer science at Microsoft meets Bill Gates for the first time. She says how wonderful it is for Bill Gates to head a company that supports a group—her research group—that has little chance of generating any application before a hundred years or so.

Bill Gates looks at her, looks at the man who introduced her to him, and says: "what is she talking about?"

 

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