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To: elmatador who wrote (65512)	6/26/2005 5:13:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

El M, you didn't say 'average engineers' and here is the quote: <This is a team work. Like desiging a microprocessor. There is 100K man hours in it. Not a couple of geniuses. These complex endeavours, are taken on by hiring thousands of average guys. > Average guys don't design ASICs. Average engineers don't do it very well either. And average engineers are already really bright [compared with average guys] as they don't get into engineering universities without a good load of brainpower. Mqurice

To: elmatador who wrote (65512)	6/26/2005 10:19:12 AM
From: critical_mass	Respond to of 74559

Bill Gates graduated from Lakeside School (high school) in Seattle, which is pretty elite. Its group of alumni includes Paul Allen, the McCaw brothers and, if I'm not mistaken, the original founders of Silicon Investor. During the late eighties and early-mid nineties, the people working at Microsoft were exceptional. The locals believed that the quality diminished when any tech company could offer promises of endless riches via stock options and it was hip to work for a smaller, high growth company.