Bill Gates scored a 1590 on his SATs and enrolled as an undecided undergrad at Harvard, only to take an unfinished "leave of absence" two years later to start the tiny software company that ultimately became Microsoft. Almost thirty years later, Microsoft actually tried to recruit Mark Zuckerberg before he went off to Harvard to, oh-so-ironically, begin to follow in Gates' footsteps: two years of half-assed Ivy League ed and then a "leave of absence" to usher in our modern 2.0 era.

But while Bill Gates was working out of a garage and getting arrested in his youth, Zuckerberg had his mind on the market from the get-go. That's why the New York Times is calling this round in favor of the Facebook brainchild.

Sure, Bill readily admits to skipping classes and marathon last-minute study sessions, but times have changed since the '70s -- now everyone skips classes and pulls it out at the 11th hour. (And a 1590? Please, doesn't Kaplan guarantee that kind of score with every SAT prep class?) But when Zuck didn't study for a test, he harnessed the power of crowdsourcing his classmates to create Wiki study guides.

Personally I think this is more a function of changes in technology than a difference in the innate brilliance of these two dudes. Or maybe it's just that I'm biased against Zuckerberg, who probossibly started Facebook primarily to get laid while altruistic Bill just wanted us to have sweet microchips. (Plus I'm a sucker for a good mugshot.)