2000/11/03

Discussion Groups

I’ve created a discussion group for this site. You don’t have to be a member to post!

Discussion topic number one is:

Bill Gates on Poverty

“Pacing the room, waving his hands, he conjures up an image of an African village that receives a computer.

“‘The mothers are going to walk right up to that computer and say, My children are dying, what can you do?’ Mr. Gates says. ‘They’re not going to sit there and like, browse eBay or something. What they want is for their children to live. They don’t want their children’s growth to be stunted. Do you really have to put in computers to figure that out?'”

–Bill Gates, quoted in today’s New York Times.

About the author.

In 2000 I co-founded Fog Creek Software, where we created lots of cool things like the FogBugz bug tracker, Trello, and Glitch. I also worked with Jeff Atwood to create Stack Overflow and served as CEO of Stack Overflow from 2010-2019. Today I serve as the chairman of the board for Stack Overflow, Glitch, and HASH.