Bill Gates...

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman ofMicrosoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people^[4] and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions ofCEO and chief software architect, and remains the largest individual shareholder with more than 8 percent of the common stock. He has also authored or co-authored several books.


PDP-10 belonging to Computer Center Corporation (CCC), which banned four Lakeside students—Gates, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland, and Kent Evans—for the summer after it caught them exploiting bugs in the operating system to obtain free computer time. After the ban, the four students offered to find bugs in CCC's software in exchange for computer time. Rather than use the system via teletype, Gates went to CCC's offices and studied source code for various programs that ran on the system, including programs in FORTRAN, LISP, and machine language. The arrangement with CCC continued until 1970, when the company went out of business. The following year, Information Sciences, Inc. hired the four Lakeside students to write a payroll program in COBOL, providing them computer time and royalties. After his administrators became aware of his programming abilities, Gates wrote the school's computer program to schedule students in classes. He modified the code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students. He later stated that "it was hard to tear myself away from a machine at which I could so unambiguously demonstrate success." At age 17, Gates formed a venture with Allen, called Traf-O-Data, to make traffic counters based on the Intel 8008 processor. 


In early 1973, Bill Gates served as a congressional page in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the year 1975 the MITS Altair 8800 based on theIntel 8080 CPU was released, and Gates and Allen saw this as the opportunity to start their own computer software company.


[source: Wikipedia]

Lesson 2 ~ Larry Page and Sergey Brin..

Google creators Larry Page and Sergey Brin began creating Google as a research project for the Stanford Digital Library Project while they were Stanford student in March of 1996.  The SDLP's goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies.


After enrolling for a Ph.D. program in computer science at Stanford University, Larry Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph. His supervisorTerry Winograd encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got". Page then focused on the problem of finding out which web pages link to a given page, considering the number and nature of such backlinks to be valuable information about that page (with the role of citations in academic publishing in mind). In his research project, nicknamed "BackRub", he was soon joined by Sergey Brin, a fellow Stanford Ph.D. student.

Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was in extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers." Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine."

Combining their ideas, they "crammed their dormitory room with cheap computers" and tested their new search engine designs on the web. Their project grew quickly enough "to cause problems for Stanford's computing infrastructure." But they realized they had succeeded in creating a superior engine for searching the web and suspended their PhD studies to work more on their system.

Now Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day.


[Source : Wikipedia]

Lesson 1 ~ Creative thinking...

So after the first class of Creative Studies I admit I was confused, I mean who knew the difference between being intelligent and creative was so complicated?  >_<


But later on, I was trying to fix my logo for another subject when I found a quote..

“It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.” 

— Edward de Bono

No other time have I wished as much as a quote to be true than this one, because to be honest, I had my fair share of rejected, wrong, and sometimes just plain ridiculous ideas in my life. But sometimes it works out, so maybe this quote has something going for it. :)

So decided to surf the web a bit for some inspiration, and found some cool stuff..

-3D Pavement Art

  

And I noticed that the Mini Cooper always seems to come up with really creative and uniques ads..

So just seeing these stuff made me so amazed at how much work must have been done in order to create something so creative. For now I can only dream of achieving something even remotely close to this, but hopefully as time goes on I'll get a little bit closer to it, whether through creative studies or anything else that may come my way ^^