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“A variety of legends have grown up around Bill Gates’ brief career at Harvard,” says John Markoff in the New York Times, pointing out Gates abandoned Harvard halfway through to co-found Microsoft.

Yesterday afternoon, at the D: All Things Digital conference Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, himself a Harvard dropout, “appeared to one-up Mr. Gates,” he says, adding >>>

Mr. Zuckerberg acknowledged that he had also skipped classes, in particular avoiding ‘Art in the Time of Augustus.’

When it came time for the end-of-term study period, he was too busy building the prototype of Facebook to bother to do the reading. So in an inspired last-minute save, he built a Web site with all of the important paintings and room for annotation. He then sent an e-mail to the students taking the class offering it up as a community resource.

In a half an hour, the perfect study guide had self-assembled on the Web. Mr. Zuckerberg noted that he passed the course, but he couldn’t remember the grade he received.

Hang on, though. It didn’t really ’self-assemble’. Did it?

And Zuckerberg passed by dint of other people’s efforts. Didn’t he?

. .Stumble It!

New York Times - Who’s Smarter: Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg?, May 28, 2008

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