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Rich? Ha! Took me a few years to get rich. I was at Harvard doing research work in '78. I had developed a New Theory of Quantum Mechanics that used basketballs to represent sub-atomic particles.
To relax, I use to shoot hoops late at night in the Crimson Gym. Every night this geeky kid would be shooting at the other end of the court. He couldn't shoot worth a lick but he was a decent guy.....a bit shy.
One night after I beat him 21-3 in a game of 3-2-1, he tells he that he's invented a great new computer language but he can't think of a name for the product?
I say,
"Well, I won the first game...let's go for "DOS" and then go out and meet some girls.
He says,
"DOS! Disk Operating System! That's it."
By now you may have guessed that the kid was Bill Gates. He was so grateful that he gave me 12% of MicroSoft.
I haven't had to sell any of the stock, yet. It's somewhere in the bottom of my old Gym Bag. I did made a killing writing those "MS Word, Excel, etc. for Idiots" books.
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