Originally posted by TooFree:
William (Bill) H. Gates
is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corporation,
the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help
people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft had
revenues of US$36.84 billion for the fiscal year ending June 2004,
and employs more than 55,000 people in 85 countries and
regions.
In his junior year, Gates left Harvard University to devote his
energies to Microsoft, a company he had begun in 1975 with his
childhood friend Paul Allen. Guided by a belief that the computer
would be a valuable tool on every office desktop and in every home,
they began developing software for personal computers. Gates'
foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central
to the success of Microsoft and the software industry.
Under Gates' leadership, Microsoft's mission has been to
continually advance and improve software technology, and to make it
easier, more cost-effective and more enjoyable for people to use
computers. The company is committed to a long-term view, reflected
in its investment of approximately $6.2 billion on research and
development in the 2005 fiscal year.
Albert Einstein was
born at Ulm, in Württemberg, Germany, on March 14, 1879. Six weeks
later the family moved to Munich and he began his schooling there
at the Luitpold Gymnasium. Later, they moved to Italy and Albert
continued his education at Aarau, Switzerland and in 1896 he
entered the Swiss Federal Polytechnic School in Zurich to be
trained as a teacher in physics and mathematics. In 1901, the year
he gained his diploma, he acquired Swiss citizenship and, as he was
unable to find a teaching post, he accepted a position as technical
assistant in the Swiss Patent Office. In 1905 he obtained his
doctor's degree.
Einstein's researches are, of course, well chronicled and his more
important works include Special Theory of Relativity (1905),
Relativity (English translations, 1920 and 1950), General Theory of
Relativity (1916), Investigations on Theory of Brownian Movement
(1926), and The Evolution of Physics (193Eight). Among his
non-scientific works, About Zionism (1930), Why War? (1933), My
Philosophy (1934), and Out of My Later Years (1950) are perhaps the
most important.
Albert Einstein received honorary doctorate degrees in science,
medicine and philosophy from many European and American
universities. During the 1920's he lectured in Europe, America and
the Far East and he was awarded Fellowships or Memberships of all
the leading scientific academies throughout the world. He gained
numerous awards in recognition of his work, including the Copley
Medal of the Royal Society of London in 1925, and the Franklin
Medal of the Franklin Institute in 1935.
[b]Who do you admire
more? 
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in case you dont know bill gates merely stole Apple Computers'
windows system and improved on it and he doesnt run Microsoft's
corporate affairs, the CEO does. 
