Everyone knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders. In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to what makes them tick.
Bill Gates
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News source: Harry K. Jones' Blog
Bill Gates
- William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, USA.
- His father William was a corporate lawyer, and his mother Mary was a schoolteacher.
- By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
- Gates scored 1590 on his SAT standardized test. The top score for the test is 1600.
- Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.
- While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s (then called Micro-Soft) first product.
- He met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to get married on New Years Day in 1994.
- In 2002, Bill Gates was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung in a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted by the City University of Hong Kong.
- In 2005, Gates was honored with the title Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
- As of the March 2007 issue of Forbes magazine, Bill Gates has been listed as Number 1 on “Forbes’ Richest People” list for 13 years in a row. His current net worth is about $56 billion.
- Gates has recently announced that he will be reducing his involvement at Microsoft and will be devoting more time to his charity work.
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As well as investing millions in research for an Aids vaccine, their foundation has also established a scholarship scheme to enable the brightest students to go to Cambridge University.
so what has your OS creator done to help others less fortunate?
But suffice it to say, Gates really is a humanitarian. Let's just forget about Windows for 1 minute and realize all the stuff he is doing to better the world outside of computing.
He deserves it all.
Let the revolution begin!!!
on a site called neoWIN
Who wouldda thunk it
If you're that upset over it submit a list of Job's accomplishments and I'm sure it will be posted, too. Remind me, how much has Steve given to charitable efforts and causes?
As of 2006, the foundation (Gates and Melinda ...) has an endowment of approximately US$33.7 billion.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_and_Meli...ates_Foundation
Why others who are as fortunate as him don't even compare:
Walmart: The Walton family has given an estimated 1% of their wealth to charity, but made 3.2 million in political contributions in 2004 alone. The Walton family received a federal tax cut of $91,500 for every hour of the 2004 tax year.
Big headed, are we?
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