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====== Bill Gates ====== | ====== Bill Gates ====== | ||
- | William " | + | ==== American computer scientist ==== |
+ | William " | ||
- | ===== Washes dinner dishes himself ===== | + | ==== Washes dinner dishes himself ==== |
+ | Bill Gates loves cleaning his own dinner dishes and does so most evenings. Some people volunteer, however, Gates says, "Other people volunteer but I like the way I do it." [([[https:// | ||
- | Bill Gates loves cleaning his own dinner dishes | + | ==== Was notorious for f-bomb filled rants ==== |
+ | Gates was infamous for f-bomb-filled rants in meetings | ||
- | ===== Was notorious for f-bomb filled rants ===== | + | ==== Bill had to hire a traffic attorney |
+ | Bill Gates used to collect Porsches and loved driving them at reckless speeds. During his early days at Microsoft, Gates received so many speeding tickets that he was forced to recruit a traffic attorney. [([[https:// | ||
- | Gates was infamous for f-bomb-filled rants in meetings | + | ==== Microsoft is no longer his main source of wealth ==== |
+ | The majority of his fortune no longer comes from Microsoft. For years, | ||
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+ | ==== Gates' First Computer Program ==== | ||
+ | Gates wrote his first programming program on a General Electric computer as a young teenager at Lakeside Prep School. That was a tic-tac-toe variant, where you could play against a machine. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Gates Was Once Arrested ==== | ||
+ | Gates was imprisoned once in 1977 in New Mexico. He was driving without a license | ||
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+ | ==== Up until 1997, he used to travel coach ==== | ||
+ | Now, he has a plane of his own. He names it his "big splurge." | ||
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+ | ==== One of Gates' | ||
+ | In addition to his aircraft, one of Gates' greatest splurges was the Codex Leicester, a series of writings by Leonardo da Vinci. He purchased the codex at a 1994 auction for $30.8 million. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Gates' Kids and Inheritance ==== | ||
+ | Gates claims his kids are only going to inherit $10 million each. Considering his vast fortune, it's just a small slice of his net worth of $81.1 billion. " | ||
+ | fortune.html/ | ||
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+ | ==== Gates' Colorblindness ==== | ||
+ | As one of the richest individuals in the world, you'd imagine Bill Gates would be seeing green. In truth, he can't — the billionaire announced in a 2006 interview that he is colorblind. [([[https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Gates reads a lot ==== | ||
+ | The timetable for Gates is scheduled down to the minute, but he somehow makes time to read 50 books each year somewhere. That’s almost a book per week. [([[https:// | ||
- | ===== Bill had to hire a traffic attorney ===== | + | ==== Monolingual |
+ | Gates has learned a variety of programming languages have been learned by Gates but he only speaks one human language: English. Despite having a hand in charitable endeavors across the globe, Gates has said that not learning to speak any languages other than his native English is one of his biggest regrets. [([[https:// | ||
- | Bill Gates used to pick up porches that he flew like a maniac. During his young days at Microsoft, Gates received so many speeding tickets that he was forced to recruit | + | ==== Inside Joke ==== |
+ | In 2008, Gates starred alongside comedian Jerry Seinfeld in a series of Microsoft commercials. The ad featured the pair shopping | ||
- | ===== Microsoft is no longer his main source of wealth ===== | + | ==== Gates' Love For Music ==== |
+ | Gates may be a machine magician, but that doesn' | ||
- | The main cause of his fortune is no longer Microsoft. For years, Gates has been selling off stock, investing in other firms and using all of it to support his charity work. His hidden investment arm is his company manager, Michael Larson.[([[https:// | + | {{tag> |