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To: combjelly who wrote (620135)	7/19/2011 2:54:02 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577890

>> No. They can take advantage of opportunities when they arise, but no way that Bill arranged for his Mom to be in a position to tell him about the opportunity or influence IBM's decision. You can extend this reasoning indefinitely, to extremes of the spectrum. Ray Kurzweil was "lucky" because he had a relative who worked at Bell Labs and responded to his early interests. Barack Obama was lucky because he knew people who would pay his way through expensive universities that he otherwise had no hope of accessing. Zuckerberg was lucky because he had doctors as parents. Were THEY lucky, too? I'm sure you've had your share of good luck as have I. Some people are just better at capitalizing on it than are others.