{"id":27,"date":"2007-09-10T16:47:03","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thamesportal.com\/management\/?p=27"},"modified":"2015-09-14T22:02:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T17:02:15","slug":"what-bill-gates-said-at-harvard-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/2007\/09\/what-bill-gates-said-at-harvard-university\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bill Gates said at Harvard University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this:   \u201cDad, I always told you I&#8217;d come back and get my degree.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I&#8217;ll be changing my job next year \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.<\/p>\n<p>I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I&#8217;m just happy that the Crimson has called me \u201cHarvard&#8217;s most successful dropout.\u201d I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I did the best of everyone who failed<\/p>\n<p>Read the full, brilliant speech <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Full Speech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/2007\/06.14\/99-gates.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates: I&#8217;ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: \u201cDad, I always told you I&#8217;d come back and get my degree.\u201d I want to thank Harvard for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,19,4,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity-and-innovation","category-learning-and-engagement","category-management-and-leadership","category-personal-effectiveness","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdi.com.pk\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}