Bill Gates vs. Mother Theresa

Captain Dilbert, a.k.a. Scott Adams, has an excellent post comparing Bill Gates and Mother Theresa, both of whom have been known to do the odd humanitarian thing.

They both devoted their lives to doing what they were into, and influenced lots of people. Somehow if I decided to go fishing for the rest of my life, I doubt it would count as humanitarian or influential - I must be a lesser human!

I'm not taking sides, although I will comment that good deeds speak for themselves and "holyness" is a useless abstract concept to me.

I haven't written about Mother Theresa before, but I have compared Bill Gates to The Pope (another famous Catholic person like Mother Theresa) and Ghandi here in If You're so Smart Why Aren't you Rich?

Happy New Year and we now return you to your regularly scheduled blog!

Pass the Champagne please.