IT-novation

I recently just watched the Social Network movie. It's more than just a history of Facebook. Very cleverly, the writers of the movie inserted some subtle messages like how greed and corruption can consume one person to backstab a trusted partner who was also his best friend, how originality can be debated and how intellectual, Harvard-educated people can get caught in irritations such as lawsuits to who had the actual rights to a popular social networking website.

I wonder if Bill Gates had any problems like these when he CO-founded Microsoft.

All I know about Bill Gates is that he founded the company Microsoft. Which is a huge contribution to entire computing system, don't get me wrong. I am grateful, because I'm using Microsoft products as well.

Here's a lovely picture of the man:


At 55, he's not looking too bad.

Anyway, that's all I know about him. Seriously, it's the only thing. I don't know much about his history, his background and his family (he has a wife named Melinda, right?).

I'm not going to discuss the trivias of Bill Gates.

Though I have to wonder, how did he envisioned a computing company that would revolutionized the IT world?

Okay, first of all, Bill Gates is not an inventor. He didn't make something new. Macintosh beat him to it.

Invention is the process of creating something that has never been thought of by anyone. You could say that the inventor is a creative person for thinking about something new. For example, Thomas Edison who was famously known for inventing the light bulb.

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Bill Gates to me, is more of an innovator. He improved on something that has been invented. The computing system has been revolutionized because of his contributions. So you could say that Bill Gates is a great innovator. But is he creative?

As explained before, creativity is the ability to think about something that's different and not been thought of before. So in my opinion, Bill Gates is not so creative as he is an innovation genius.