"Study" finds half of Americans want to be Bill Gates
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted Jan 17th 2008 12:33PM
posted Jan 17th 2008 12:33PM
posted Jan 17th 2008 12:33PM
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I'm 15 now and I'm willing to give up my 15 years to be a 30 year old Bill.
Sorry, that should read... "Study" finds most Americans want to be billionaires.
What a shitty study. An interesting one would be to only ask people in their twenties and thirties if they want to be Bill Gates. Sacrifice their youth for his money.
I am currently working on my own study to prove that Americans enjoy delicious foods, sex, and large televisions. Engadget will apparently post any study remotely linked to tech, so maybe I'll get it published!
Steve Jobs now the color of green apple.
I don't want his job I only want the money.
Why is it that I never get invited to these "surveys"? hmm?
If they showed that picture of him, people might change their mind.
Andrew, think so?
What most people will the pay most attention to:
[1] Drop out of college.
[2] Get arrested.
[3] Become the richest man in America.
Err, something tells me it'll do a lot more bad than good to show that picture.
sorry, you mean "Half the Americans don't know who Bill Gates is".
hahahaha
Let me get this right:
a. You steal someone else's intellectual property.
b. You are rich beyond capacity because of that, and marry your PR agent, who is not hot.
c. Having created a profitable monopoly, decide to fail in every new venture outside of what you stole.
So everyone wants to be this guy. Green Day is right.
i would like to be him BEFORE he donated all his money to charity!
Hell Yeah! Charity is for losers! Ummm I mean don't be greedy... Yeah thats what I meant.
oh no.. what am i gonna do with the other billions?
as of 11/07 bill holds 857,499,336 shares of MSFT so every 3 months a small 94.3 mil goes into his account from a 11 cent dividend. not mentioning other investments and salary
agree with first post. what a ridiculous study
Damnit Engadget, stop clicking on those "Punch a monkey" banner adds. You're gonna get a virus. I don't care How COOL they say their survey is.
rofl. i love those games
Where can I get some of those fresh shades? Far out man!!! :)
I'd settle for being Bill Gates' embezzling CPA.
speaking of surveys, what happened to the "should HD DVD just give up" survey?
awww... I bet your ps3 gave you a hug after that one, eh?
(I'm also an owner of a ps3, so I have some right to make that comment.)
actually, i was really curious to know why it was pulled from the homepage
check this link
http://www.engadgethd.com/2008/01/17/poll-should-hd-dvd-throw-in-the-towel/
You know that's engadgetHD.com, right?
I guess that explains all of the students in college for MBA degrees to add to the FLOOD of MBA degrees already in the market.
i don't want to be bill gates
i wanna be bill gates rich!!
Me? Wanna be Bill? Nah.. just give me enough money to not have to work anymore.
So I can climb the mountains and sing the songs that I like to sing... Or go to a movie theatre, and take a dump in one the seats and just wait.... till someone sat in it... and hear a squish.... thats funny to me.
Nice Chappelle reference.
Is it because half of Americans think they could make a better operating system or iPod competitor?
Well, a bunch of people people around the world just /did/, whether it's the people who took the survey or not.
I'd rather be Torvalds than Gates.
What's that around his neck?
It's a mug shot, so that would be the ID tag for the picture
Yeah Matt. I can it's a mug shot and I know that's the ID tag. But what's that other colorful looking thing around his neck? Is that the collar for his shirt or a hanckerchief neck tie or something? Was that the style back when this took place? 1977? Damn that's a long time ago.
Ye shis shirt collar. If IRRC, this was taken around '77 when he had just started MS in Arizona. He was also supposedly caught in 75 for driving without a license and speeding in a straightaway on the freeway out in the desert.
Don't even tell me that he isn't stylin' in that pic. Look at the clash of those patterns and colors he's got on. It's come full circle. He's wearing his favorite shirt under his favorite sweater with his favorite glasses.
It's what all the rappers and bad asses wear now.
that is not in style. that was never in style. period. someone show me a picture of a rapper...no better yet, someone from the time period of 1975-1980 who dressed like that and was considered 'in style.' no, just find me another human being in history who wore something similar to that.
People are too lazy and procrastinate too much to be Bill Gates, or we'd have tens of thousands of them.
I would like to be Hugh Hefner.
You mean impotent and surrounding yourself with hot chicks to make you feel better?
I meant when he was young obviously.
You actually think people saying they want to be Bill Gates mean they want to be a 53 year old?
"The other 53-percent said they preferred being powerless, poor, and not knowing what to do with Visual Basic."
I think virtually everyone wants nothing to do with Visual Basic.
I rather be Steve. He will be richer because he doesn't give his money to charities.
it's grosse...
Heh.
And I thought the article was gonna read "the other 53% want to be Steve Jobs". What a fuckin' Apple fanboy I am ;-)
Seriously, though, Chebwa had a great comment up there. Who'd want to be a Bill/ionaire even if it meant sacrificing your youth? I'm currently 35, but I still wouldn't give up 15 years of my life to become a 50 year old Bill.
Here's a hot tip...you're gonna give up those 15 years eventually anyway, and you won't be rich.
Trust me on that.
No, I would be living those 15 years, and I'm saying all the billions aren't worth it for me. If you can't share my views, then fine, but your hot "tip" is worth about as much as amoeba shit to me.
Not worth amoeba shit?
I'd say you don't drink alcohol, then.
You can keep the money, I just wish I had the look...
Yeah? What about a Steve Jobs vs Bill Gates study?
So what if I'm powerless, poor, but really good at visual basic? hehe
C++, BASH, and Python for me :)
..VB can go die.