One of the world geniuses of the IT industry was struck by the recognition and regret that in his youth he paid too much attention only to studies and did not allow himself to waste time attending parties and football. The revelation was made during a question and answer session at Harvard University, in a university, which he threw in 1975 to implement his own project.
Bill Gates throughout the interview was extremely honest and open, so the question of the sophomore absolutely did not embarrass him, but forced him to share his thoughts on the past. What does the genius regret that did or did not do while studying at Harvard? The 62-year-old billionaire and co-founder of Microsoft replied:
"I would like to be more open and sociable with my peers, but I spent a lot of time studying and reading, I never attended basketball and football matches that took place in the campus and university. Of course, my few friends tried to drag me to parties. Steve Ballmer (a classmate and former CEO of Microsoft) constantly dragged me to the meetings of the Harvard Brotherhood "Fox Club", said that I need to learn to relax and drink. In those few moments when I succumbed to his entreaties, it was fun. But my antisociality did not allow me to get the maximum pleasure from the sit-rounds, although it was instructive. "
According to fellow students and Gates himself, Ballmer was a "star" among students, an active member of the club "Fox Club", a manager of the football team and a journalist of several student publications:
"I can not say that I did not want to communicate. I was just so absorbed in my ideas, my desire to succeed in school, to know everything that I did not see anything around ... Each new course, I collected a lot of subjects and plunged into books ... The result you know what brought. But I'm grateful to Balmer for trying to make me a man. "
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For an hour Bill Gates talked about his youth and his dreams, laughed and actively gesticulated. The tabloid Business Insider wrote on the results of the interview that not only the genius of the IT industry regrets that little time was devoted to entertainment and communication while studying at the university. According to Gates and many other successful geeks, such pastime allows you to gain extensive experience in communicating with people of different backgrounds, to exchange points of view and, in particular, to satisfy personal ambitions.