Bill Gates – a business magnate, dutiful philanthropist, software pioneer, and the
world’s richest man. Let’s take a look at 50 of the most interesting things you probably didn’t know about Microsoft’s co-founder.

1. Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates
III, the fourth in his family to be given the
name. Because his father had the suffix “II”,
Bill was called by the nickname of “Trey.”

2. Gates attended the exclusive Lakeside
School, one of handful schools in the US
with a computer terminal at the time. Gates
interest in the computer programming was
such that he was excused from Math
classes to pursue it.

3. Gates first computer program ever was a
tic-tac-toe game.

4. Gates hacked his school program to schedule students in classes, changing the code so that he was placed in classes with
“disproportionate number of interesting girls.”

5. At 17, Gates sold his first computer
program, a timetable system for his high
school for which he pocketed a $4,200.

6. Gates graduated from Lakeside School
with a score of 1590 out of 1600, and then
went to Harvard in 1973 where he met
Steve Balmer.

7. As sophomore at Harvard, Gates wrote a
pancake sorting algorithm which for over
30 years held the record as the fastest
solution to the problem presented in a
combinatorics class by Henry Lewis.

8. At Harvard he told professors that he
would become a millionaire before he was
30. By 31 he was a billionaire.

9. In 1975, Gates dropped out of Harvard
and joined his childhood friend Paul Allen to
form a company which they named “Micro-
Soft.” The hyphen fell off within a year.

10. Interestingly enough, Microsoft wasn't
Bill and Paul Allen first venture. They had
come together earlier to create Traf-O-Data,
a company that made traffic counters built
on the Intel 8008 processor.

11. In 1977 he was arrested in New Mexico
for driving without license.

12. During the first five years of the
company, Gates reviewed every single line
of code the company shipped.

13. In the industry, Gates developed a
reputation as a fierce competitor as well as
not being reachable the phone or returning
phone calls.

14. In an interview, Gates conceded that
Control-Alt-Delete key combination to log
into a PC was a mistake.

15. He paid $30.1 million at an auction in
1994 for the Codex Leichester, a collection
of writing by Leonardo Da Vinci.

16. Committed in giving back most of his
fortune through charity work, Gates has
reportedly reserved only about $10 million
for each of his children.

17. When asked why he was active on
Twitter and not on Facebook, Bill Gates,
who is a friend of Mark Zuckerberg, said:
“The friend requests got out of hand…”

18. To show how much he appreciated his
collection of Da Vinci manuscripts, Gates
said that if he would have to choose
between his legacy and rescuing the
writings from a burning home, he would
invariably opt for the latter.

19. A money machine in the most authentic
sense of the word would show that Gates
makes in average about $250 per second,
$15,000 per minute, and almost $20 million
every day.

20. His net worth briefly surpassed $101
billion 1999, causing the media to call
“centibilionaire.”

21. His wealth rival that of 40 countries put
together, and not 140 countries like some
people has been led to believe.

22. From 1995 through 2008, Gates was
the richest man on earth, before being
dethroned momentarily by Warren Buffet.
In 2013, he recouped the top position after
seeing his fortune increased by US$15.8
billion to US$78.5 billion.

23. Thirty-two years after dropping out of
Harvard University in 2007, Gates returned
to his school to receive an honorary degree,
thus vindicating a promise he had made to
his father to one day get his degree.

24. Towards the end of his life, Steve Jobs
reportedly kept a letter from Bill Gates near
his bed.

25. Through his foundation, Gates has
donated over $28 billion, the largest volume
of capital ever mainlined to charity.

26. Out of spite, Steve Jobs is said to have
left Bill Gates waiting for an hour at the
NeXT offices before meeting him.

27. In recognition to his charitable
contributions around the globe, in 2005,
Gates was knighted by Queen Elizabeth of
England with the KBE Order.
Source:boomsbeat.com/articles/71/20140109/50-things-you-didnt-know-about-bill-gates.htm

hmm

Ahn wey lalasticlala

Clean wealth. Not some government assisted criminals who claim to be rich without any charitable act to their names

Some jobless youths will spend all their days online attacking others as a result of ethnic, religious and tribal sentiments.
I'll surely surpass bill gate's achievement. Expect me. #Hearmystory

Nice one!

But why this section?

Oche211:
Some jobless youths will spend all their days online attacking others as a result of ethnic, religious and tribal sentiments.
I'll surely surpass bill gate's achievement. Expect me. #Hearmystory

But let's not forget that bill was born with a silver spoon meAning he had more oppurtunies at his disposal,he used the oppurtunities he had to the mAxmium

The case of the average nigerian youth and their unemployment is has a result of many things poverty,poor educational background,unmanaged population growth,lack of electricity,etc.

So it is quite unfair to compare this people with Mr Microsoft who didn't go through the above mentioned.

Though I agree that some of our jobless youth display some madness online instead of finding out ways to improve themselves and impact the society. I really don't blame them, it is what the society has turned them to.

Note: am not saying they can't rise above all that and become great,my point is we shouldn't compare Bill to the youths we have here. Its two different things entirely.

Whenever I read things like this I begin to wonder, how do people get so rich? I know where I want to be, but am I really doing enough to get there in good time? And then fear starts to creep in, real fear.

Anyway, I've learnt to tell myself: bright light in sight despite the slight fright, just gotta fight tight to make the flight to the right height. It will be well.

Cc: Ishilove Lalasticlala