To succeed, you also have to know how to make choices and how to think more broadly.
As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.
3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security.