Hes the richest man in the world with a net worth of $79 billion.
He is the co-founder of Microsoft, the worlds largest and most successful PC software company.
He is the worlds most prolific humanitarian who donates generously through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2.Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer as a young teenager at Lakeside Prep School.
It was a version of tic-tac-toe, where you could play against the computer.
Apparently, he slyly altered the code so that he would get placed in classes with mostly female students.
4.Gates scored a 1590 out of 1600 on his SATs.
Their Traf-O-Data 8008 computer was designed to read data from roadside traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers.
6.Gates was a college dropout.
He left Harvard University in 1975 to fully devote himself to Microsoft.
7.Gates was arrested in New Mexico in 1977, for jumping a red-light and driving without a licence.
8.Bill Gates aimed to become a millionaire by the age of 30.
However, he became a billionaire at 31.
9.At Microsoft, Gates used to memorize employees license plates to keep tabs on their comings and goings.
Eventually I had to loosen up, as the company got to a reasonable size, he said.
Gates promptly took the challenge and leapt over the chair like a boss.
11.One of Gates biggest splurges was the Codex Leicester, a collection of writings by Leonardo da Vinci.
He acquired it at a 1994 auction for $30.8 million.
12.He flew coach until 1997, even though his net worth was already well into the double-digit billions.
Leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them, he says.
14.Gates says that if Microsoft hadnt worked out, he probably wouldve been a researcher for artificial intelligence.
15.Gates doesnt know any foreign languages, which he says is his biggest regret in life so far.
source: www.techworm.net
