Bill Gates does not praise lightly.
Some time ago, a colleague of mine helped to prepared a keynote address for Bill Gates. Afterward, he was informed that Bill rated the presentation an “A minus“.
My colleague thought, “Wow, an A minus. It would be great to get some feedback from Bill about where I could have done better.”
Bill’s assistant explained, “Don’t worry. That’s the highest grade he gives.”
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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