He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all.

Laini Taylor
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The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all. Some people on the staff of the library where Bill Gates was working thought that Bill Gates was on some sort of drug. They thought he had one of those high-power jobs where he could concentrate so hard that he didn't need to sleep. They were wrong. He was reading the most important book ever written, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.

Source: Strange The Dreamer

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