Gates studied in public elementary schools and private lakeside middle schools in Seattle, where he began his career in personal computer software and began to write computer programs at the age of 13.
In p>1973, during his first year at Harvard University, Gates lived on the same floor as the current Microsoft President steve ballmer. During his stay at Harvard, Gates developed the basic programming language of the first microcomputer-MITS Altair. BASIC language is a computer language developed by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth College in the mid-196s.
In the third grade, Gates dropped out of Harvard and joined Microsoft founded in 1975 with his childhood friend paul allen. They are convinced that personal computers will be a very valuable tool for every office desktop system and every family, and under the guidance of this belief, they began to develop software for personal computers.
Gates' foresight and insight into personal computers have always been the key to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. Gates actively participated in the key management and strategic decision of Microsoft, and played an important role in the technical development of new products. He spends quite a lot of time meeting customers and keeping in touch with Microsoft employees all over the world by email.
under the leadership of gates, Microsoft's mission is to continuously improve and improve software technology, so that people can use computers more easily, economically and effectively. Microsoft has a long-term development strategy, which can be reflected in its R&D investment of $2.6 billion this fiscal year.
From 65438 to 995, Gates wrote The Road to the Future, in which he believed that information technology would promote social progress. The authors of this book include nathan myhrvold and Peter Relson, chief technology officers of Microsoft. It ranked first in The New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks, and stayed on the list for 18 weeks.
The Road to the Future has been published in more than 2 countries, with more than 4, copies sold in China alone. In 1996, in order to make full use of the new business opportunities brought by the Internet, Gates made a strategic adjustment to Microsoft, and at the same time made a comprehensive revision of the road to the future. In the new edition, he thinks the interactive network is an important milestone in the history of human communication. The second edition of paperback is also on the bestseller list. Gates donated the income from his manuscript fee to a non-profit fund to support teachers around the world who combine computers with teaching.
Besides computer complex, Gates is also interested in biotechnology. He is ICOS, Chiroscience Group and Chiro Scientist &; Company d? Used to be a shareholder of DarwinMolecular. He also founded Corbis, which is developing one of the largest visual information resources in the world, providing comprehensive digital documents for public and private art and photography collections around the world. Gates also invested in Teledesic with Craig McCaw, the pioneer of cellular telephone. The company has ambitious plans to launch hundreds of low-Earth orbit satellites to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services to the world.
In the 12 years since Microsoft went public, Gates has donated more than 8 million dollars to charities, including 2 million dollars to the Gates Library Foundation, which is used to help major libraries in North America make better use of various new technologies brought by the information age. From 65438 to 994, Gates founded the William H Gates Foundation, which sponsored a series of activities of interest to Gates himself and his family. Gates donated four key areas: education, world public health and population issues, non-profit public art institutions and a regional investment plan-Puget Sound.
Gates married Melinda French Gates on October 1st, 199465438. They have a child, Jennifer Katharine Gates, who was born in 1996. Gates is an avid reader and likes playing golf and bridge.
Bill Gates' famous saying
(1) Life is unfair, get used to it;
(2) The world won't care about your self-esteem until you achieve something;
(3) Don't expect too much after graduating from high school;
(4) Don't think that your boss is tough. Until you get a boss, he doesn't have tenure.
(5) flipping burgers will not harm your dignity;
(6) Your predicament is not your parents' fault;
(7) Your parents have been paying the bill for you, which makes it very boring now;
(8) Your school may not distinguish between top students and bottom students, but it has nothing in common with real life;
(9) In life, you have no summer vacation to rest and no one to help you find yourself;
TV is not real life;
be kind to boring people, and you may work for a boring person.
In the late 195s, Gates was born into a middle-class family in Seattle, a city on the west coast of the United States. In the early 196s, Gates received a good modern education in a private lakeside school, and began to contact computers and learn the BASIC language. Gates was able to write computer programs at the age of 13. At the age of 14, he served as the chairman of a computer-related organization in the school, and his computer genius was recognized by teachers and students. 197-1971 ● When Gates was 16 years old, he and his friend Allen set up a traffic data company and designed a set of urban traffic monitoring system with Intel 88 chip. The next year, at the age of 17, Gates sold his first program to the school and earned $4,2. 1972-1973 ● At the age of 19, Gates studied at Harvard University and studied the most advanced science and technology in the world. 1974 ● Intel introduced 88 chip, 1 times faster than 88. Gates took the lead in setting an example: he worked around the clock for eight weeks and equipped the world's earliest microcomputer Altair88 with BASIC language, thus opening a new era of PC software industry and changing the whole industrial structure! In 1975 ● This year, an important event happened in the United States, which was recorded in the history of world science and technology development: Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in Seattle. At the age of 2, Gates became CEO. 1977 ● Gates's career is booming, and Microsoft's brand has set a banner in the global IT industry. 198 ● Microsoft introduced MS-DOS system, which became an instant hit, and DOS became an inevitable built-in system for almost all personal computers. 1986 ● Microsoft went public with a share price of $21 and a financing of $61,; Gates became the youngest self-made billionaire in the world. 199 ● Gates released the Windows3. operating system, with global sales exceeding $1 million. 1995 ● Gates released windows95 and decided to support and strengthen the development of the Internet. 1997 ● Microsoft has 25, employees in 58 countries, with a turnover of $11.3 billion and a market value of $15.8 billion. Gates' mansion "House of the Future" was completed. It is located on the lakeside of Washington, with an area of 3,7 square meters and a cost of about $1 million. In 1998 ● Gates released windows98, and IE browser has become popular all over the world, and surfing the Internet has already become a daily routine for Americans. 1999 ● Microsoft's market value reached US$ 47.2 billion, ranking first among the 1, largest enterprises in the world, far ahead of traditional ace stores, and Gates continued to sit firmly on the throne of the richest man in the world.