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Bill Gates Learns from Those Wiser

As a high school student, Bill Gates was already an accomplished programmer. But he still wanted to learn from those better than him. As a senior, he and Paul Allen landed a job where they could work on state-of-the-art computer problems, under the scrutiny of brilliant analysts. John Norton was flown in from One Space Park to "audit the project, interview the suspects, review everybody's code, straighten out the screw-ups."

To many people a person like this would be a pain, a dreaded overseer. But to Gates, a person who intensely desired to write excellent code, he was an incredible blessing. In Gate's words, "He was a god! He would take a piece of source code home, come back and just totally analyze the thing." He loved it! (Written by Steve Miller, copyright Feb., 2003. Source: Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews, Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented An Industry - And Made Himself The Richest Man in America, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1994, p. 54)

How much do you love and value wise criticism? As Proverbs puts it: "Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise." (Prov. 19:20)

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