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Bill Gates Tells Internet Users to ‘Ask Me Anything’ and the Results Are Hilarious

Feb. 12, 2013 10:01am

President Barack Obama blew up Reddit when he hosted an “Ask me anything” (AMA) on the social forum (AMA’s are a popular feature on the site). Monday afternoon (EST) into Tuesday morning Bill Gates was killing it on the website as well, but maybe with a little more laughter associated with his responses and the comments back to them.

Bill Gates Does an Ask Me Anything AMA on Reddit

Gates proving that it is in fact him answering the questions on Reddit. (Image: Imgur via Reddit)

The “I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, AMA” — which we all know should read “I’m Bill Gates, richest American alive, AMA” — has some rather light-hearted questions, among serious ones, and equally hilarious comments to the responses from the inventor/business tycoon/philanthropist/second richest man in the whole world.

The top question – What is something that needs to be changed in the world, but money wont help? — received this response from Gates:

It would be nice if all governments were as rational as the Nordic governments – reaching compromise and providing services broadly. The Economist had a nice special section on this last week. Africa governments have often been weak but you can’t write a check to change that. Fortunately the average quality is going up. Mo Ibrahim tracks this in a great way. (http://www.moibrahimfoundation.org/IIAG/)

Interesting comments based on this response:

  • Ponoru: Saying something positive about Scandinavia on reddit ensures upvotes.
  • Dr_fish: I think just being Bill Gates ensures upvotes.

Another typical questions with a Gates-ish answer: What do you do for fun? I find it hard to fathom how someone like you can just disconnect. Disconnect from the emails, calls ,the media. All of it. What would be your definition of a chill and fun day?

“I love playing tennis. I am an avid bridge player (a card game if you have not heard of it – it was more popular in the past!). I like to tour interesting things with my kids like power plants, garbage dumps, the Large Hadron Collider, Antarctica, missile Silos (Arizona),… I read a lot and watch courses (online or the Learning Company).”
Interesting comments based on this response:
  • Plaguarist: Casually tours the LHC. The jealousy is strong.
  • cgillett: Most people travel to Antarctica. Bill Gates tours it.
  • skiingbeing: ”I love bridge and garbage dumps”. You, my good man, are the wealthiest old hobo I’ve ever seen.
  • geoken: Remember how we went to the LHC last month, well today we’re going to a garbage dump
  • MsBananaHammock: As a child whose parents brought me to the landfill on a regular basis, I can honestly say I loved garbage dump day.
  • I_WILL_REPLY: Garbage dump day is a very dangerous day.
  • guy_from_sweden: “Dad, I’m booored” ”Get in the car kids, we’re going to Antarctica today!”
Although perhaps an expected question — Anything left on your bucket list? — it received a more unexpected answer. “Don’t die…”Here are just a few more of the more light-hearted questions that give us some insight into Gates’ mindset:

  • Q: Since becoming wealthy, what’s the cheapest thing that gives you the most pleasure? Gates: “Kids. Cheap cheeseburgers. Open Course Ware courses…” Q: Where are you acquiring these cheap kids from? Gates: The stork.
  • Q: What type of computer are you using right now? Gates: “I am using a Perceptive Pixel display right now – huge Windows 8 touch whiteboard. These will come down in price over time and be pervasive…” Basically, this is how Gates responds to people on Twitter (below)
Bill Gates Does an Ask Me Anything AMA on Reddit

(Image: Imgur via Reddit)

  • Q: Is Weezer still your favorite band? Gates: “Weezer…. Actually U2 is a favorite.. I keep waiting for Spinal Tap to go back on tour…”
  • Q: “What do people give you for your birthday, given that you can buy anything you want?” Gates: “Free software. Just kidding. Books actually.”
  • Q: Can you still jump over chairs? Gates: “Less than I used to. It was part of exercise for snow skiing. I still ski but I am not as hard core…” Here’s Gates jumping over a chair in the 1990s for Connie Chung:

  • Q: Do you guys really use Bing? I mean seriously… Gates: “Seriously Bing is the better product at this point. Try the challenge. I am biased but the work to make Bing better has been amazing.”
  • Q: How did you feel about your portrayal in “Pirates of Silicon Valley”? Gates: “That portrayal was reasonably accurate….”
 Here’s the video Gates included that promoted his AMA before the event: 

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Comments (43)

  • KEELHAULUM
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:33pm

    Who?
    I’m already rich, Thanks.

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    KEELHAULUM  
  • tonypro
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 3:06pm

    I find NOTHING hilarious about anyone that believes global de-population needs to be accomplished.

    He’s just another elite dirt bag.

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    • sacwoodpusher
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:32pm

      Wassa matta w/ global depopulization? How yu mean? Kill’em all or stop’em from breedin’?

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      sacwoodpusher  
    • jpclarksville
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:50pm

      You’re right. Its not funny…its downright scary. Everyone thinks that Bill Gates is this really nerdy rich guy that gives away his money. His father is a eugenicist, he is a eugenicist who thinks there are too many people living. He’s been investing in large tracts of land all around the world, invested with Monsanto and tells people that it’s to help feed the world. More like controlling the world food supply. We have a senator, Lamar Alexander who co sponsored a bill a wile back, S510, that would make home gardens and saving heirloom seeds illegal.

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      jpclarksville  
  • Force2bewreckin
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:48pm

    The blaze is again ignoring the real story here. Many reddit users asked BG why he is heavily invested in Monsanto and why he would support GMOs. He ignored all of those questions. Other people asked him if he ate GMOs and he ignored that question. He was asked about the farmer suicides in India because of Monsanto destroying their farm land still ignored. Just write tour puff piece about a horrible human being. More evidence GB is on the dole.

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    • PK_SEA
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:21pm

      GMO’s aren’t as bad as you think they are. If you need to feed the world, science will be your best shot at it. Here’s an interesting speech given by a former anti-gmo environmentalist, with sound reasoning to boot.

      http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/

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    • Force2bewreckin
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:37pm

      PK_SE drink the Kool-Aid buddy. There is absolutely zero evidence showing GMOs produce more crops. More crop failures are linked to GMOs. In fact GMOs have been know to pollute the ground so non GMOs will not grow. A study has shown that rats eating GMO food are sterile by the 3rd generation and with subjects having hair growing out of their mouths
      employees of Monsanto refuse to eat the food they create. A few Monsanto scientists have gone as far as buying their own organic fed milk cows. Do some of your own research and stay off the Monsanto funded websites. Elite’s and royalty a Ike have their own organic farms to produce their food. Wake Up

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    • jpclarksville
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:58pm

      There was an article written about GMOs and how they are lacking in nutrition. The doctors interviewed said that you could eat these vegetables and be starving nutritionally. It also could be a factor in why people are overweight…it cant be corn syrup (yeah, I realize that more people and kids sit on their collective butts) but any hoo…Monsanto is a major stockholder in SYSCO, a restaurant food supplier. It seems that there are virtually no restaurants that prepare food anymore, they just reheat sauces, soups, lasagnas, cakes, pies, etc from Monsysco. The more you’re able to produce for yourself, the better off you’ll be.

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      jpclarksville  
  • denkat56
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:27pm

    One question:-) How come a ram in the a#$ is still considered a goose?

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  • DarthMims
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:23pm

    My question would have been this: After all of the technological advances, the different versions of operating systems and software, and the advanced way of linking programs, why can’t my Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word still not talk to each other without a third party translator program?

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    • Priscilla King
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:42pm

      Good one. And, “What can be done to stop the obnoxious ‘updates’ that won’t work on half the public computers in the country and just might destroy your computer if you own one?” And, did anybody out there NOT want to ask him, “Would you send me some of that money?” And, “Who wrote the idiotic grant on which this computer center is operating, and why were they so hostile to serious writers and researchers?”

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      Priscilla King  
  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51am

    Nobody asked for money?

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    Anonymous T. Irrelevant  
  • Bill Wallace
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51am

    Admittedly, am NOT a Gates fan.

    But he provides a great example, IMO: Steal something with some buddies, create a company that pushes out cheap, crappy products (think “Chinese model”), and retire as one of the richest people in the World.

    Meanwhile, I am still waiting for a version of Word that actually works.

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  • Carrie3570
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:36am

    I’m still waiting for Spinal Tap to go back on tour as well.

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    Carrie3570  
  • Mr.Fitnah
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:22am

    I have always liked this guy, Even while struggling financially and being insanely jealous of his wealth. He has always been more than his money to me.

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  • KevINtampa
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:14am

    ”I love bridge and garbage dumps”

    Seeing how the rest of us live is fun, right? ;-)

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    KevINtampa  
    • ImChiquita
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:24am

      I don’t want to reply.

      I want to upvote you.
      Thumbs-up you.
      High-five you.
      “Like” you.

      Report this comment

      ImChiquita  
  • tharpdevenport
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:07am

    That young guy who is a shining example of capitalism, is long gone and dead. Now I just see a leftistgiving us a bunch of crap nobody asked for, but now feels they need, whom also helps perfect the creepy Google cousin Bing.

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    tharpdevenport  
    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:32am

      …whose foundation funds abortion clinics throughout the third world…. talk about “creepy”

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    • Force2bewreckin
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 6:20pm

      Don’t mistake capitalism with corporatism. You are not old enough to know what capitalism is.

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      Force2bewreckin  
  • Stoic one
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:47am

    Truly an exceptional businessman. He could quite possibly become rich selling dung.

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    Stoic one  
    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:06am

      Umm, he did! :D

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      REALID 239823749828-HIF  
    • RogueRequest
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:21am

      Another Apple loving liberal hipster. Why don’t you run off to buy another $30 cup of coffee.

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      RogueRequest  
    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:32pm

      @ROGUEREQUEST
      Nice to see you making assumptions about someone you know absolutely nothing about. How intelligent and enlightened of you! The fact that you assumed that I’m an OSX fan because I made a joke about Windows, shows how little you truly know about computers. Had you been a learned person, you would know that there are several other operating systems out there that could be my OS of choice. Try clicking on my user name and looking at my past posts. It’s not hard. Maybe you’d learn something. Or even better, try getting a sense of humor.

      For your information, and you would know this had you bothered to learn something about me before unleashing your pathetic attempt at trolling, I use several different operating systems every day. I’ve been a software developer for somewhere between 19 and 24 years now, depending on exactly how you count it.

      So let me educate you a little here, since you clearly need it. Windows is, and always has been, a terrible operating system. It’s full of hacks, and glued together technology that open the user to malware and information theft. From a software development point of view, there is nothing worse to work with than Windows, which is why the software written for it is so bad and insecure.

      OSX is better, but I still don’t like it. It’s not very intuitive for me. So, before you go mouthing off again, take a break and have a hot cup of STFU.

      Thanks!

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    • REALID 239823749828-HIF
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 4:48pm

      @ROGUEREQUEST
      Also, I just noticed that you called me a liberal. Let me see if I can follow your twisted chain of logic here:

      Hate Windows == Love Apple == Liberal.

      Wow, that’s a logical leap that only a TRUE liberal could make.

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      REALID 239823749828-HIF  
    • RogueRequest
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:41pm

      I am a conservative troll, even though 99% of my comments are genuine.

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      RogueRequest  
  • brigott
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:46am

    Sorry, Bill, but not dying is not an option.

    “For it is appointed unto man once to die, and after this, the Judgment.”

    The big, eternal question, is whether you have been born twice so that you only die once, or were you born only once and must, therefore, die twice?

    Jesus said, “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No man cometh unto the Father but by Me.”

    Have you come, Bill?

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    brigott  
    • OniKaze
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:37am

      That post makes me laugh……

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      OniKaze  
    • HowTruthHurts
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:45pm

      @brigott

      Good point. Being so rich and powerful for so long can make a man forget he’ll die one day like everyone else.

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      HowTruthHurts  
    • antitheism
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:25pm

      Sorry to say that Bill doesn’t share your superstitions, he is agnostic.

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      antitheism  
  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:39am

    Bill can you convince Warren to pay the 1 billion he owes the IRS pigs? Also tell him to stop harping about raising taxes.

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    progressiveslayer  
  • ElJefe77
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:17am

    Goes to show you, BILLIONS of dollars can’t stop you from aging prematurely. This guy looks terrible for his age. My dad is ten years older than Bill and looks ten years younger.

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    • colascguy
      Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:59am

      I bet Bill averaged 3 or 4 hours of sleep for most of his time at MS. That type of grind has to really age a person. Look at what being President does to ones looks.

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      colascguy  
  • Gonzo
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:14am

    He tours interesting places like garbage dumps? What’s so interesting about New Jersey?

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    Gonzo  
  • biohazard23
    Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:07am

    He’s still a dork and Windows still sucks.

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