Instead, he saw the game as the fastest, most influential route toward the platform he now enjoys in his dizzying array of business and philanthropic efforts.
It is just the kind of Web-driven business that fits perfectly with the ambitions of Microsoft and others aiming to incorporate a wide array of business and personal services into their software products.
They have been working with the White House and an array of business and environmental groups to fashion a package designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce dependence on foreign oil and create millions of clean-energy jobs.
"As a bank we have relationships with such a big array of businesses, and they trust us with their wellbeing.
The hierarchical, industrial corporation was born, subsuming a broad array of functions and, often, a broad array of businesses, and it quickly matured to become the dominant organizational model of the twentieth century.
Mr Williams is head of the Centre for Engineering and Manufacturing Excellence (CEME) in Dagenham, a charity launched in 2003 that provides training opportunities for a vast array of businesses and employers from the local area.
But if people didn't self-regulate and make good decisions – if they all became tailors and carpenters, rather than a much more diverse array of businesses, and that can happen – then I'd be more worried.
But he remained a powerful force in technology and philanthropy for decades, investing his billions in an eclectic array of businesses and charitable efforts while acquiring sports teams, discovering World War II shipwrecks and backing aerospace ventures that drew on his childhood fascination with adventure stories and science fiction.
As a result, he lived in a diverse array of places, led IT in a diverse array of businesses, and developed methods that work well, no matter the environment.
Hans-Georg Maassen, head of Germany's FBI equivalent, told journalists: "Recently, we see the willingness of Russian intelligence to carry out sabotage". And beyond these cyberattacks, Russia has a vast array of business supporters and fixers in Germany who regularly press Moscow's case, according to a November report by the Atlantic Council.
The MetroNow coalition, which represents a broad array of business, environmental and civic groups, made a similar appeal to Maryland.
