Today I Learned (TIL)

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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/AdInevitable5096 on 2025-07-24 03:07:51+00:00.

Original Title: TIL that shortly after Bill Gates left Harvard to start Microsoft, one of his professors remarked, “He had moved to Albuquerque to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking, ‘Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.’”