比尔盖茨化学只得C+

比尔盖茨数学极好。
A brilliant math student, Gates would blow off his classes to go to ones he hadn't registered for. He would slack all semester, then cram at the last minute and ace the final.
The worst grade Gates ever got at Harvard, a C+, was in organic chemistry.

比尔盖茨社交能力较差。
"The only computer-science course that I ever signed up for was the one that had the most prerequisites in the whole catalog — and I signed up for the second half of the year," Gates says. "So my freshman year I show up, and it's all graduate students, and two days into the course I tell the professor, Hey, you know, this thing is wrong ... My social skills weren't that great."

比尔盖茨的个性魅力。
But there's a warmth to him and a weird but genuine charm. It's always a pleasure to interview Gates, not because he's a good talker but because he isn't: he doesn't talk you around, doesn't spin you or snow you, or if he does, he does it so badly that you can see it coming a mile off. It's just how his mind works — he can't help answering your questions seriously and literally. There are tales, probably true, of his brutally breaking down employees in meetings. He likes the truth, and he likes things to be clear. I sit in on a meeting in which he works through the kinks in his Harvard speech. He stumbles on a superfluous phrase: more fully. "That's the kind of stuff I hate," he says, pausing for a minute to riff. "I delete stuff like that all the time. The word truly — whenever I see it, I tend to delete it. Why say 'truly X'? Is 'X' not enough?"

比尔盖茨远见性（VISION)极强。
Pretty soon Gates and Allen twigged that there was a bigger game going on, even bigger than Harvard. "We'd agreed the microprocessor was going to change the world," Gates remembers. "It was weird that people didn't see that."
"The thing that Paul and I had been talking about happening was happening," he says, "and we're sitting there going, Oh, no, it's happening without us!" Gates had realized that there was a future in writing and selling software for personal computers. It was one of the great technology and business insights of the century. Harvard wasn't impressed.

比尔盖茨艺术感性较差。
For all his drive and intelligence, Gates doesn't see things with an artist's eye for those human intangibles.Microsoft makes efficient business tools, but they've never enjoyed the same reputation for simplicity and elegance as, say, Apple.

比尔盖茨的使命感极强。
Gates refers to his philanthropic work as "solving inequity," as if it were a long-division problem. When Gates looks at the world, a world in which millions of preventable deaths occur each year, he sees an irrational, inefficient, broken system, an application that needs to be debugged. It shocks him — his word — that people don't see this, the same way it shocked him that nobody but he and Allen saw the microchip for what it was.
capitalism itself needs to be re-engineered. In his Harvard speech he introduces an idea he calls creative capitalism. "That may be the most important phrase in there," he says, "in the sense that capitalism has really triumphed in this incredible way, and certainly for at least a billion people, it's done a spectacular job, and alternative systems have not. Yet there's this strong feeling that getting that system to direct itself to the right problem — there's more that can be done." In the speech he exhorts the students and faculty to do something about it: to hack the system and add the features it needs to address these problems. He cites a practice called advance market commitment, in which governments band together to guarantee orders for an expensive and otherwise financially risky vaccine. "That's the kind of idea. It's about using competition and market incentives but directing it the right way."

比尔盖茨的弱点成了他人的机会。
Gates is probably getting out of technology at the right time. Funnily enough, it's not really a business for nerds anymore. Gates was at the center of the personal-computer revolution and the Internet revolution, but now the big innovations are about exactly the things he's bad at. The iPod was an aesthetic revolution. MySpace was a social revolution. YouTube was an entertainment revolution. This is not what Gates does. Technology doesn't need him anymore.

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