In the last decades of the 20th century, a revolution in information technology transformed commerce and consciousness, just as the printing press transformed civilization 500 years before. These advances in computer technology and communications would have remained the province of professional scientists and mega-business if not for the introduction of the personal computer, and no person played a greater role in bringing the computer into homes and offices all over the world than William H. Gates, III. Bill Gates was a teenage computer whiz when he dropped out of Harvard to start his own company, Microsoft. Through a brilliant combination of technical prowess and business insight, Gates made Microsoft the indispensable supplier of operating systems and office software to computer users around the world. If you use a computer to write a letter, compose an email or visit a website, chances are you're using Microsoft software. Microsoft’s uncontested dominance of the personal computer software market made Bill Gates the richest man in the world for many years. He has used his personal wealth to attack the most intractable global problems of disease and poverty through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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When you step out the door, you're playing a role. Whether you're a hippie, stock broker, police officer or biker, you dress the way the world expects you to dress, you act the way the world expects you to act. So you can imagine how much more intense this is for celebrities, whose very careers depend on managing a public image down to the molecule
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We sent the year’s biggest free agent—that’d be HBO’s Bill Simmons—to chat with the biggest free-agent-to-be. That’d be, uh—well, can we call you Barack?
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Nikola Tesla brought The Light to us. Thomas Edison gave us The Bill.
When you think about it, intelligence is a fairly broad term. Most of us are completely sharp in some areas but dull in others. Psychologist Howard Gardner asserted that we actually have “multiple intelligences,” and this infographic sums them up. Intelligence tree image from Shutterstock In his book, Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple […]
Since the US is celebrating her indepedence this week, it's the perfect time to share my newest free patriotic printables, including Bill of Rights.
British Prime Minister David Cameron, Denmark's Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and President Obama pose for a photo during Nelson Mandela's memorial service. Michelle Obama is not amused.
