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Best advice: Gates on Gates (cnn.com)
16 points by wallflower on June 28, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Q: Is there anything you specifically learned from Steve Jobs over the years?

B.G.: Well, Steve's kind of a fanatic about things, and you know, I think fanaticism is underrated. I'm a fanatic about running the engineering groups and the quality of them. Steve is a fanatic about the user experience and the design, and it clearly has made a huge difference for Apple that he says that it all has to come together -- not some committee-type view that has a list of things, but rather a holistic view. That's a deep insight.


I was a bit surprised that he said something (nice) about Jobs.


He's actually quite magnanimous about Apple (though the opposite isn't true) - I've read a few nice comments about Apple from Bill Gates.

I guess he doesn't feel he needs to prove anything anymore (which doesn't seem to be the case of Steve Jobs...)




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