It may be peanuts

[Steve]

Good on him . £17bn is no small amount of money by anybody's calculations and quite a coup for a Deptford school


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16726193

[Lance]

If only there were more people with his wealth and aims.

[pctech]

Blimey, why didn't such things happen when I was at school.

I've no doubt he is a ruthless businessman but underneath that Bill does seem to be a genuinely good guy and apart from Sir Tim Berners-Lee is perhaps the only well known person from the tech world I'd actually quite like to meet.

[Simon]

What's laughable is that most of our parents wouldn't have allowed us to stay on the computer "day and night" - but it didn't do Bill Gates any harm! 

[pctech]

Absolutely, my Mum says I do but as you say it didn't do him any harm.