* Tim Smith peremptorily fired off this memo:
> In article <EM_Pj.57185$vr3.26400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Linonut <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Not only in looks, but in senescence:
>>
>> The core problem seemed to intrigue Gates, who offered it as "a
>> paradox": If a drug company ever invents a treatment for something
>> like malaria, it'd be immediately beset by calls to give the drug
>> away. "So they choose never to work in those areas," he noted
>> sympathetically. "The current incentive system isn't doing it."
>>
>> How much error and misinformation can /you/ cram into that paragraph?
>
> Can you be less vague? What do you incorrect in that paragraph?
The whole damn paragraph.
--
Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came
along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told
me about it and I said, "I don't know how to spell that." I said, "Yeah,
I've got that on my list, so I'm okay." But there came a point when we
realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than
had been recognized in our strategy.
-- Bill Gates, Speech at the University of Washington, as reported in
"Gates, Buffett a bit bearish" CNET News (2 July 1998) [1]
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