"Felt a great disturbance. As if a million Apple-haters cried out, ripped off their clothes and ran around the city high-fiving each other."

--Rikki Simons

Actually, most of the people I've ever worked with in Silicon Valley had similar backgrounds--maybe not all adopted, but almost everyone was a college drop-out of one sort or another. Even I started college and didn't finish it for exactly the same reason--at the time, I was unable to afford it.. ultimately, my experience has spoken FAR more than an education would have, thankfully, for me.

Amen--thankfully, people like him and even Gates and others who've similarly recognized good talent that never finished college hire people like me and my coworkers. So, if nothing else, they're hiring creative, experienced and talented people in addition to the studious and well-read. I give him lots of credit for that, honestly. It's one of the better parts of the Apple (really, mainly Silicon Valley all-around) culture.

Also, AT&T will buy T-Mobile, thereby giving Microsoft-Nokia one less carrier to deal with. What a brave new future. :/