How to move Mount Fuji

Author: James H. Polanyi
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: How to move Mount Fuji? This question may sound completely nonsensical, but it was one of the interview questions Bill Gates posed to university graduates eager to join Microsoft. It was also a question that stumped many young people fresh out of college, eager to showcase their talents. Someone once asked Bill Gates why he would ask such a strange question, and what the correct answer was. Bill Gates replied: There is no fixed correct answer to this question. What I wanted to know was whether the young applicants were thinking about the problem in the right way.