Bill Gates Handwriting Analyzed

Kaal Alexander Rosser writes "The BBC is reporting that a doodle left behind at a Davos press conference given by Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono shows the writer to be: "an unstable man" amongst other things. The Gates Foundation has confirmed the doodle was left there by Bill Gates."

unstable

[minus_273]

i dont know about gates, but his OS is damn unstable.

Bill Gates doodles...

[fitten]

are probably nothing more than variations of the $ sign... =)

Aha

[spellraiser]

The 'unstable man, unstable OS' jokes may begin ... now.

Wow

[Quasar1999]

Really, handwriting analysis? This is the computer age... I don't even know how to write... I put an 'X' in the 'sign here' section... everything else I type... If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon. ;)

I first read that as

[WormholeFiend]

a "doodie".

I thought, pity the lab technician who had to do this for media purposes.

Speaking of doodles

[savagedome]

Paula: Can you grab my purse.
George: Yeah.( reaches for the purse and finds a piece of paper . he looks annoyed.
Monks , next day .George showing Jerry the piece of paper he picked up
Jerry: Yeah! So
George; Don't you see what this is?
Jerry: Yeah! It's a doodle.
George: Yeah!, a doodle of me...look at the size of the nose , the ears, all my features are distorted.
Jerry: Oh!.It's an affectionate caricature.
George: I'm grotesque . I look like a troll.
Jerry: It's just a drawing.
George: Don't you see what this says? How can you possibly like somebody ,if you think they look like this?

Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono...

[brian ferullo]

what bad joke is this setting up?

Hitting the Nail on the Head !

[bushboy]

Hey, the poor guy has been hammered left right and center for years - can you blame him for being a bit troubled !

I bet he draws penguins and apples and little tiny bugs and all sorts of odd things when he's bored !

Re:Wow

[MPHellwig]

"If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon. ;)"

Naah, much to easy this one ;-)

But how did they...

[tod_miller]

How did they crack the DRM on the doodles so they they could be analysed outside of Media Player?

And why didn't the paper contain a little ticker that showed the time and date and author of the doodle?

Anyone have a link the torrent? Oh man, I feel strange... it must be the /. effect.

Did the doodles point to any new ideas in windows? Or was one of the doodles a strange on-flying bird like creature being beaten to death by office stationary (paperclips)

Who knows? :-) Or was it a monkey screaming 'oooh ooh develoopers! developers developers! aaaargh!'

Bill's future.

[adam31]

I saw Bill get a tarot card reading in Las Vegas a while back.

I remember one card had a Skull...
and the other had a Penguin.

Re:handwriting analysis?

[coyotecult]

....Serves them right? I swear I did not do that on purpose.

Re:Wow

[Foofoobar]

If they analysed my handwriting, well... they'd think I was a 2 year old with a crayon

I thought most Visual Basic users were. ;)

Next on Slashdot

[the_skywise]

Bill Gates' psychological analysis using the science of Numerology, his tea leaves from his last sushi dinner and a phrenologic reading of his cranium.

Re:Want to see the doodle?

[savagedome]

Actually, George Bush's doodle was also found. You can see it here [about.com]

Re:Bill Gates doodles...

[sasquatch21]

Bill uses Perl?

Re:Speaking as a geek...

[oliana]

I believe the correct sentiment is "more successful" with technology than girls.

Re:Him2?

[miseryinmotion]

Bono happens to draw comic versions of himself and The Edge fighting evil across the galaxy, and always takes them home to ink and color.

Re:Bill Gates doodles...

[Tenebrious1]

are probably nothing more than variations of the $ sign... =)

I heard there were drawings of some short squat bird and the words "die die die" over and over again...

Re:unstable

[davesplace1]

He may be unstable and we all know his OS is unstable, but his checking account is very stable.

Typo?

[Ironsides]

Excuse me while I go consult the "I Ching" to find out whether Microsoft intends to embed Internet Explorer in "Office 2007".

Since this is Microsoft and Bill Gates we are talking about, shouldn't you consult "Ka Ching" instead?

Re:Hitting the Nail on the Head !

[Xentor]

They're not bugs. They're undocumented features

Re: Aha

[Cyn]

such as 'struggling to concentrate[in bed]', 'not a natural leader[in bed]', 'struggling to keep control of a confusing world[in bed]' and 'an unstable man who is feeling under enormous pressure[in bed]', equally apply to Mr Gates.

Apologies to Mr. Gates - it needed saying.

Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono go into a bar...

[eugene ts wong]

...and the bar tender says, "We don't serve big wigs here like you.".

Tony Blair says, "But can we at least vote on it?".

The bartender says, "No!".

Bill Gates says, "But we just need a place to crash.".

The bartender felt betrayed because he expected support from Bill, and thus said, "You too??".

Bono says, "Yes...".

Handwriting analysis?!?!?!? for Jebus sakes

[gwjc]

I dislike micro$oft as much as the next slashdotter, BUT handwriting analysis! Why not check his bio-rhythmn and astrological correspondences while you're at it. I bet even Bill still has enough geek in his soul to laugh at the morons who think his handwriting revealed anything other than the colour of ink he was using.

Take a pill

[shallow monkey]

Of course, if he'd used a Tablet PC [dhs.org] to doodle on, this whole hullabaloo would never have happened.... But then, that too is telling, that it's easier to doodle on paper than on a tablet pc [microsoft.com].

Tony Blair, Bill Gates, Bono and you are in a lift

[mobby_6kl]

You have a gun but only two bullets, who do you shoot?

Re:Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono...

[955301]

Tony Blair, Bill Gates and Bono walk into a bar within 5 minutes of one another and sit down.

With an obvious need to one up the other two egos in the room, Tony orders a kamikazi and says, "I know they say the three of us are quite unstable, but I believe I have you chaps beat, even on that front. I overthrew a country on the advice of a Texan." He passes a "one-free-knighting" coupon to the bartender for escro on his challenge.

Gates, drinking a screwdriver and squiggling on a piece of paper, blurts out "It's not like Britain didn't do that to the same people before. Try dominating the world with a collection of buggy software and an army of marketroids. Allow the single most significant collaborative creation of the 20th century to be brought to its knees. Then get back to me". He passes a check totaling the GNP of a small country to the bartendar to see Blair's challenge.

Bono, not even inclined to remove his sunglasses responds passes a black I-pod to the bartender. "You see that blonde, at the end of the bar? I'm going to eat her now." He downs his tequila, walks up the blonde, stabs her repeatedly, then eats her, and returns to the conversation.

The bartender interjects and says to Bono "I don't think your instability counts... after all, you're on drugs, and that makes it artificial." Bono, looking puzzled because he hadn't taken a pill in at least three days says "Hell, I'm not on drugs". The bartender passes the pot to Gates, refills the men's drinks and replies, "of course you are, that was a bar-bitch-you-ate".

Congrats, Einstein

[gosand]

In other words, graphology is BS and the people who analyzed it already had a preconceived notion about whose it was and made the appropriate BS analyses.

And up until this point I thought it was all hard science. Next you are going to tell me that psychics and spoon-benders don't really have extraordinary powers.

Re:Tony Blair, Bill Gates, Bono and you are in a l

[JPDeckers]

Tony Blair, twice.

Oh, wait, this is slashdot, wrong answer:)

Re:Bill Gates doodles...

[IvoryRing]

You really mean 'the Tux, the', surely.

Re:Handwriting analysis?

[chman]

"...only a little more authoritative than phrenology..."

Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!

Re:unstable

[Dorothy 86]

I'd say it's not stable... it should be more related to an endothermic reaction... it pulls all of the money everywhere else into itself...all that cool money definitely chills the bank a little ;-)

... So, Bill seems to like ...

[ninjagin]

... triangles and squares. It seems pretty harmless enjoyment of 2-D geometry to me. I didn't see any icky-faces or similarly juvenile imagery, just a bunch of triangles and squares and a bunch of bullet points.

When I doodle, I end up with spheres and cubes and conic sections, not because I'm a great three-dimensional thinker, but because I like to practice light/shadows and foreshortening.

Maybe Bill was practicing his triangles? Even if they were Tony's doodles, what's so wrong with Tony practicing triangles?

What I get from it is this: Some of the most powerful people in the world have fun with triangles, so they must be okay to play with.

Re:Congrats, Einstein

[Bachus9000]

Next you are going to tell me that psychics and spoon-benders don't really have extraordinary powers.

But there is no spoon!

Couldn't resist. :)

Re:Bill Gates doodles...

[Doc Ido]

No, he uses Perl.NET.

Re:Speaking as a geek...

[Locke2005]

You'd be suprised how successful you can be with girls when your pickup line is "Hey baby, I've got $50 billion worth of Microsoft stock!"

Re:Congrats, Einstein

[JustOK]

I can't decide whether to say "Get bent" or suggest this as a plot for Futurama...

Re:Is this the Bill obesssion?

[nadadogg]

With about 10 zeros.

Re:Speaking as a geek...

[aussie_a]

Did you get a chance to ask him what he runs at home? I bet he would have said Linux. Otherwise he isn't a geek. Only true geeks use Linux.

*closes down IE*

Re:unstable

[Hognoxious]

What the fuck is "davos"?

Direct Access Virtual Operating System. [wikipedia.org]

Not to be confused with Domestos [wikipedia.org], a chemical for cleaning toilets or Bobby Davro [wikipedia.org] who isn't used for cleaning toilets, more's the pity.

Re:Congrats, Einstein

[drfireman]

I can bend spoons. It's hard to explain to a lay-person, but it just takes a bit of ... I don't know how to describe it, call it "leverage." I would be the last to call my powers extraordinary, this is really a power that is latent in all of us, but usually suppressed due to a mental block I will call, in shorthand, "respect for silverware."

Handwriting analysis is also not complete crap. The other day, my wife went shopping, and correctly bought an item that I had written down on our shopping list, even though I myself couldn't read my own handwriting.

A Haiku

[Anonymous Coward]

An unstable man
struggling to concentrate.
George Bush? No. Bill Gates.

Dudes!

[Spackler]

If I ever become rich and famous, I am going to leave doodles of boobies all over the place. They will think I am a sex obsessed pig.... Oh.

Bill Gates , Davros ?

[Evil Pete]

I read this automatically as being about Bill Gates at a Davros press conference. Immediate thought: Davros, inventor of the Daleks, and Bill Gates together. You just know it makes sense.

Hmmm. Must . get . out . more.