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[alister]

On Sun, 08 May 2016 11:01:58 -0700, Christopher Reimer wrote:

> On 5/8/2016 10:53 AM, alister wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 May 2016 03:12:14 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 8 May 2016 08:21 pm, Cai Gengyang wrote:
>>>
>>>> If one looks at the Forbes List, you will see that there are 4
>>>> programmers amongst the top ten richest people in the world (Bill
>>>> Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos) , a very large
>>>> percentage. Science and Technology is in a sense the most egalitarian
>>>> field in the world, because it involves using your brains and
>>>> creativity. You don't need to have a father who is a director at
>>>> Goldman Sachs or a mother who is the admissions officer at Harvard to
>>>> succeed in this line.
>>> Bill Gates III's father was a prominent lawyer, his mother was on the
>>> board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and United Way, and
>>> one of his grandfathers was a national bank president. Gates himself
>>> went to Harvard.
>>>
>>> Zuckerberg's paternal grandparents were successful middle class,
>>> described as  being the first on the block to own a colour TV. (This
>>> was back in the days when colour TVs were an expensive toy that few
>>> could afford.) His parents were also very successful professionals: a
>>> dentist and a psychiatrist. And he too went to Harvard. Despite the
>>> jeans and tee-shirts Zuckerberg is known for wearing, he's firmly from
>>> the professional/upper class.
>>>
>>> Bezos comes from a family of land-holders from Texas. His grandfather
>>> was regional director of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and was
>>> financially successful enough to retire at an early age. He didn't go
>>> to Harvard, but he did go to Princeton.
>>>
>>> Ellison is the son of an unwed mother who gave him up for adoption by
>>> her aunt and uncle, comfortably middle-class. That makes him the
>>> closest out of the group as a "regular guy".
>> And at least 2 of the above reached their position using business
>> practices that could be described as less than 100% honorable & above
>> board.
> 
> What do you expect from people who haven't graduated from Harvard? :P
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Chris R.

i think the two people i am thinking of both did go to Harvard, i don't 
know if they graduated or not



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