Bill Gates the dropout to receive honorary Harvard degree, will finally be able to do something with his life

Bill Gates, a true inspiration to college dropouts the world over, is about to crown his academic career with the ultimate irony by receiving an honorary degree from Harvard, the very school he ditched his Junior year to get Microsoft going. Harvard is handing him the degree to thank him for doing this year's upcoming commencement speaker gig at the school, as they do for all commencement speakers, and won't announce what the degree is for until then. (Hint: probably not Phys Ed). We haven't the foggiest what Bill Gates will have to say to the youngsters, other than to make fun of them for working hard these past four years while he's been busy earning billions of dollars, getting knighted and even being interviewed on the hallowed pages of Engadget.

[Thanks, Motoi]

[paloooz @ Mar 25th 2007 2:14PM]

Lemme guess... iTunes doesn't care about black people?

[paloooz @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:41PM]

Does iTunes not care about black people either?

[jessica @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:05PM]

they they ?


seriously, proof read it before posting anything silly up here

[Kyle @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:07PM]

Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640K of RAM!?
Bill Gates, 1981

[tiuk @ Mar 23rd 2007 7:28PM]

Every time I see someone type that quote (especially when even if it were said by Gates, it'd be out of context and would have nothing to do with the subject at hand), I die a little more inside.

[Dave @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:12PM]

Now Gates can finally join the ranks of other great geniuses who actually earned this illustrious degree--like George W. Bush.

[Neal @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:38PM]

At least come up with something original (and accurate)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates
(under Misattributions)
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Although Gates has expressed similar opinions at other times [1], this particular quote has been denied by Gates:
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)

[Naveed @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:15PM]

pimp

[Stephan @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:18PM]

"Hey Bill you just got your Havard degree after 30 years what are going to do next"

"I am going to BUY Disneyland!"

[Deezee @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:19PM]

Bill is da man.

[Rick @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:19PM]

See, you can buy your way into the ivy league.

[Colin @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:20PM]

Congratulations to a deserving recipient.

Other recipients: http://www.hno.harvard.edu/guide/lore/lore4.html

[4ham @ Mar 23rd 2007 6:57PM]

I actually hope he refuses this.

[scottstrash @ Mar 23rd 2007 9:00PM]

you know, phys ed degree's aren't actually that easy to get. add a semester extra of classes (advanced math, and sciences) and its pre med. as for an honorary degree i dont know if that makes you any more qualified for a job, and i'm sure Mr. Gates wanted that entry level programming job too!

[August @ Mar 25th 2007 12:52PM]

Please tell me you're a defending recipient of a phys. ed. degree.

[scottstrash @ Mar 25th 2007 5:29PM]

no, not a phys ed degree, teaching is the last thing i ever want to do, but i did get a physical therapy degree, which has a few of the same courses the phys ed people take.