It’s widely rumored that Bill Gates has Asperger’s syndrome — a mild form of something that, when severe, is usually called autism. The person is intensely single minded, almost an idiot savant. It’s the reason that Bill Gates wrote the most clever software and cut the shrewdest business deals, yet never foresaw the Windows virus.
Gates is smart. He is also very arrogant. But, he did not write the operating system that launched Microsoft.
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