Do we really want the guy that said that we’d never need more than 640K of memory having any influence at all over our health care?
The guy’s a dolt. A very wealthy dolt, but a dolt nevertheless.
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As is coming out with his connections through his father, Gates was the front man for Microsoft, not the brains.
Most of the "biographies" about famous people are fictional concoctions. These people are put together and marketed like a breakfast cereal.
When I got the lightning bolt on this was when I found out that Houdini was a construct. He was a run of the mill stage magician, working in circuses and broke. His real name was Erik Weisz, and he was born in Hungary. In Chicago, he met some people, and a year later he was making $4500 a week, and getting lavish praise in the newspapers. Police helped him with his stage act. He was one of the early "manufactured" stars. He was probably a spy on the government payroll.
He started traveling abroad, meeting with government officials. There are documents indicating he was involved in espionage, and was a key figure in advancing occult practices in the US, like seances and contacting the dead. His death has never been fully explained. Was his usefulness over? Everything about him was an artificial construct created by powerful people.
Second thunderbolt: Sinatra. Mafia connections, "king of cool."
Heart Throb?
Girls fainted when they heard him sing. That was even used in Looney Tunes cartoons. It was a lie. The girls were paid to swoon.
Don't believe anything you read about the "official" biography of a famous person.