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Books - 12 & 13 It has been a long time since I sent you an e-mail about a book review. In fact, I did not read any new book. I was bitten by the golf bug. It took me some time to realise that golf is a very difficult game and I should not waste my time. Now I am back to my first love: reading books. This summer I read two books written by two great men in the software industry. One is 'The Road Ahead' by Bill Gates and the other is 'Just For Fun: the story of an accidental revolutionary' by Linus Torvald. I must confess I am biased against Bill Gates. I had read the book 'Hard Drive' by James Wallace and Jim Erichson. It refers to an article about Bill Gates in the Newsweek. It says (page 401): The Newsweek article ended with an apt passage from John Steinbeck's novel, Cannery Row: "The thing we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second." The same, apparently, was true about Gates. At another place the book says (page 397): A few years ago, Pete Peterson described Microsoft as the "fox that takes you across the river and then eats you".
'The Road Ahead' does not reply to
these allegations but is a futuristic vision of the Information Technology.
The book explains in very clear and easy language some of the difficult
concept in Information Technology and the course that it is likely to take
in future. I must confess, I am impressed. The book is worth reading. |
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