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When Fortune magazine asked Google cofounder Larry Page what was the best advice he ever got, Page said that while at Stanford he couldn't decide which of his 10 projects to focus on until his advisor, Terry Winograd, looked at one them — something to do with "the link structure of the Web" — and said "that one seems like a really good idea." Since, the advice has paid off for Winograd; he's landed a consulting gig at Google and even took a sabbatical to work there from 2002 to 2003. Google's recent market cap: $179 billion. (Photo by boltron)
The $179 billion worth of free advice Larry Page got from his Stanford advisor
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12:20 PM on Mon May 12 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Graph theory is CS porn. Or maybe a stripper.
I think it has something to do with discrete math classes having more girls than CS classes.
Yeah, that guy is an academic. The skeleton is a dead giveaway.
If I didn't know better, I'd say he was a high school physics teacher, though.
Pictured: Michael J. Fox (left) with Christopher Lloyd.
The Einstein look has finally made a comeback.
If he had helped Microsoft get started he would probably be sleeping it off in a Redmond alleyway about now.
yo they call me Wino grad now, I be puttin away mad bottles son!
@sample032: What discrete math classes were you in??
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