If It’s Broke, Don’t Fix It
January 28th, 2013 - 12:18 pm
I’ll be honest and tell you I didn’t get past the headline on this column:
Bill Gates: My Plan to Fix The World’s Biggest Problems
But I bet millions of people were wishing it had included “bringing the Start menu back to Windows 8.”
Did the article come with a CD-ROM attached like this one?
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Ahead-Penguin-Longman-Reader/dp/1405879327/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359403874&sr=1-1&keywords=bill+gates+the+road+ahead
Behold, the Audacity of Planning
to fix the world’s biggest problems.
How humble! And selfless!
How about fixing the problems with just Microsoft Word?
We’ll move onto the bigger, worldly stuff later.
Bill is welcome to be as grandiose and ambitious as he wants, so long as he uses his own money to do it.
This one paragraph seemed out of place, but Bill must be reading Instapundit.
“In the U.S., we should be measuring the value being added by colleges. Currently, college rankings are focused on inputs—the scores and quality of students entering college—and on judgments and prejudices about a school’s “reputation.” Students would be better served by measures of which colleges were best preparing their graduates for the job market. They then could know where they would get the most for their tuition money.”