Bill Gates

Bill Gates He is the richest man in the world. His former friends, who are now

his enemies, hate to even hear his name. His company wants to be with

you in your office, your car, and even your kitchen. His name is Bill

Gates. There is a lot more to Bill Gates than being the richest man in

the world. He is one of the people responsible for setting off the

computer revolution, and by doing that, he as changed the way mankind

lives forever. Who is Bill Gates? Most people do not even know what it

is that he does. This paper will talk about Bill Gates" beginnings in

computers, his leading in the computer industry, the creation of

Microsoft, and his extraordinary wealth and leadership.

William Henry Gates, III was born October 28, 1955 in Seattle,

Washington. He was the middle child of three born to William and Mary

Gates. William was a lawyer and Mary was a socialite part-time

teacher. Trey, as he was called because of the III, was sent to a

private school by his parents.

At age 13, Bill had completely taught himself programming after taking

a computer study class at Lakeside School (an expensive private school

in Seattle). Within a year, he and a man by the name of Paul Allan

formed the Lakeside Programmer’s Group. The group was commissioned by

the town to create a traffic-monitoring program. They constructed an

application called Traf-o-Data that calculated the number of cars

traveling down a road and would then give the best timin...

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...displays their

favorite art on video screens in the room. The pin also controls the

climate of the room and only allows the phone nearest the person to

ring.

Bill Gates is not any ordinary person. He is a dreamer that wants to

succeed. He will not put up with anything other than perfection. At

the start of the computer revolution, he was told that his vision of a

computer for the home was only whimsical. Bill Gates worked hard to

reach the top, and prove everyone wrong.

Moritz, Charles. William Gates Current Biography. H.W. Wilson Company:

New York, NY, 1991. Pp. 237-241.

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Http://www.microsoft.com

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Isaacson, Walter. In Search of the Real Bill Gates. Time Magazine,

January 13, 1997. Pp. 46-47.