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The fact of the matter is that Gates has one of the most severe cases of intellectual curiosity ever known. When most people kick up and relax on their holiday, Gates was cramming information, consuming book after book just to quench his thirst for new knowledge. It's a characteristic that helps explain the enduring success of Microsoft in an industry where a great many once-successful firms have fallen by the wayside. It is one of the factors that made him such a deadly adversary.