Harvard’s most successful dropout finally gets the degree

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”



- Bill Gates

This became one of the most famous lines on June 7. Just like an inspiriting commencement address given by Steve Jobs at Stanford in 2005 (Stay Hungry Stay Foolish), Gates shared his early college life and subsequent rise of the Microsoft avatar with fresh graduates, emphasizing more on never stop thinking and working and not to surrender to complexity and quit the battle ground. Read the full transcript at Harvard News (link).



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1. EMBO (Nature Publication) editorial article: Motivation (reflecting double edged effect of motivation)

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