20 facts about Bill Gates

1. About Gates - with his permission or without it - plenty of books written. Search for books at Amazon.com keyword Gates gives 137,632 results.

2. In 13 years, Bill Gates with his friends broke into the school computer and access to classified information. Instead of punishing the young hacker, computer center Seattle hired Gates to work to test their programs.

3. The parents were scared thrust of Bill Gates to computers and even forbade him to approach this "infernal machine." For a year, Bill just did what he was reading the biography of great men from Napoleon to FDR. He was interested in thinking of historical figures.

4. Bill Gates officially recognized as the most successful of those people who has ever throwing training at Harvard. By the way, after a few decades, Bill still graduated and officially graduated from Harvard.

5. The first company he founded was called Traf-O-Data.

6. Initially, he wrote the name of their current companies as Micro Soft.

7. His great-grandfather was a legislator and mayor, his grandfather - the vice-president of the Bank of the State, and his father - prosperous lawyer.

8. When in 1968 at the prestigious College Lakeside installed the first computers, Gates began to spend the day and spend the night there, and his performance declined sharply.

9. Gates, Paul Allen and their friends in Lakeside wrote unauthorized program and once broke down the computer.

10. As a child, Bill liked to swing on a swing. If you now have to think about it, he again starts to sway.

11. Classes at Harvard quickly bored him, and he was engaged in programming or playing poker.

12. Gates told his professors at the university, which will become a millionaire before he turned 30 years old.

13. Gates became a billionaire at age 31.

14. One of the professors said of him: "Bill was a great programmer, but obnoxious personality».

15. irregular life at Harvard led him to the summer of 1974 in a hospital bed, and he dropped out.

16. the first program he wrote, still in school, she helped the effective planning of teaching hours. Gates used the program in order to enroll in the class, where the girls were cute.

17. Gates married Melinda French in January 1994 on one of the Hawaiian Islands, which he rented for this purpose.

18. Even at the dawn of the World Wide Web, Bill Gates said: "The Internet - is futile." Perhaps it was his most profound misconception. And after a few years he gave the front line of their best programmers.

19. Bill Gates became the author of the book "The Road Ahead." In the book he outlined his views on where society is moving in relation to the development of information technology. For 7 weeks, the book ranked first in the list of top best-selling world.

20. Gates pays annually about $ 1 million. dollars of taxes on property.

Sources: programmer.telenet.ru and www.vseblogi.com

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