[dpweb]

Gates? Considering what he's achieved I always found him quite humble.

Here's a guy perfectly justified if he said "I am much more brilliant than everyone else". This take over the world thing is quite new amongst tech entrepreneurs. From my understanding.. he knew he was onto something big, but super-billionaire was not in the expectations.

[nostrademons]

Gates (and Page, Musk, Bezos, Zuckerburg, Kalanick, etc.) don't say they're more brilliant than everyone else, they act like it. Rather than say they're going to take over the world, they actually do it.

It's a little fascinating to me that culturally, we look down upon people who talk about dominating their opponents, but look up to people who say nothing but actually do dominate their opponents. But then, I suppose it fits with "actions speak louder than words".