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Star Wars Takes Over Harvard Commencement
An anonymous reader writes "Harvard University celebrated its 356th Commencement on Thursday. It is tradition at Harvard is to have an undergraduate deliver a Latin Salutatory address. This year's speaker, Charles Joseph McNamara, delivered an address all about Star Wars in Latin! TheForce.net has a write-up of the event, and the speaker was really hilarious. He apparently doesn't like Star Wars that much, but it's still awesome. The video is available online, and you too can see him do a Yoda voice and make light-saber motions ... in front of over 30,000 people. The speech is under "Morning Exercises" on the Harvard site. The Latin Oration begins at about 1:09:30."
Catullus FTW.
Seems 100% accurate to me, just a little short on the details and context. Plenty of folks know some juicy tales of paper tape and Aiken labs.
The problem is the implication that he left Harvard in order to found a multi-billion dollar business, as if he had planned it all out.
He was dead on right about the future of the home computer
So were many other companies.
and he made that future, or broke it, depending on who you ask. He is a brilliant businessman.
The personal computer industry was built by thousands of companies, many of them run by brilliant technologists and brilliant businessmen.
Gates isn't stupid, but, in the end, it's extraordinary ruthlessness, not extraordinary brilliance, that has given him the edge and allowed him to succeed. And, as far as I'm concerned, that makes him a bad role model.