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The Short Answer (to "Why Bill Gates is Richer than You")

"Bill [Gates] is just smarter than everyone else," Mike Maples, an executive vice-president of Microsoft, says. "There are probably more smart people per square foot right here than anywhere else in the world, but Bill is just smarter."

The New Yorker, January 10, 1994

"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."

Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, Viking Penguin (1995), page 265

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