Also back then you pretty much had to live in Settle or San Fransisco if you wanted to be part of the computer industry.

The point is that we toss people with Bill Gate's potential all the time to make room for the Eric Trumps of the world. Then we act like the stand outs are made of something special.

I like Bill Gates obviously, and that story from your earlier post is even more impressive when you consider he solved it during lecture.

But Bill Gates is where he is because he happened to be smart, and rich, and his drive was inadequacy. Because the son of a rich man can't love himself we let him destroy thousands of small businesses run by people with no desire to run the world. Young Bill Gates would destroy your life's work only so that he could finally feel right about himself and we celebrate this.