What I learned working for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (Ben Fathi) Flashcards
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years
Ignorant: foolish, unwise
It would be fair to say that I’m proud of my thirty-five-year career in the computer industry.
I’ve had the pleasure of working with thousands of brilliant people and, thankfully, have learned a little bit from each of them. I was once a brash young engineer at NeXT Computer and, many years later, a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft.
Brash: perky, cheekily self-confident and impolite
In a sense, two of the most important lessons I ever learned, I learned from Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.
In a sence, = in one aspect
In a general sence,
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I was not interested in going back to a country suffering through revolutionary turmoil and a pointless war. I was of conscription age and would have ended up fighting on the front lines of the Iran-Iraq war. No, thanks!
Suffering through revolutionary
Turmoil: اشفتگی
Conscription age:خدمت اجباری
Just think about it. Any kid can pick up a smartphone or tablet today, type in a question,anyquestion, and get an instantaneous answer. Wow. Just fucking wow.
Instantaneous: فوری
One of my favorite quotes is from the author Sam Harris: “Boredom is just lack of attention.”
But I prefer to turn the phrase around into a positive statement that best summarizes the lesson I learned from Bill:If you pay enough attention,everythingis interesting.
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What I can tell youas a piece of career adviceis to only work on things you are passionate about.
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What I learned from Bill later, at a distance, was that he was also a decent human being.
He could take that brain and apply it to solving much harder problems — education, poverty, disease.
Decent:شایسته
Human being
