Career counselor: Bill Gates or Steve Jobs?

You may have seen this before, but I thought it merited inclusion, considering that right now high-school grads have their eyes on next fall.

Microsoft's Bill Gates has advocated majors that are "well-correlated to areas that actually produce jobs," but Apple's Steve Jobs has taken the opposite view:

"It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices."

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