"Well, when geek means that you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, then I plead guilty, gladly. Also, I kinda hang around with people who are like that. In our work, numbers give you the sense of scale, and then you meet the individual mothers and children and farmers. So yes, it’s good. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble."
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Bill frickin’ Gates.
Bill Gates: ‘If you don’t like geeks, you’re in trouble.’ - Telegraph

