Business Legend - Bill Gates

Bill Gates: Software Giant

His parents decided to send him to Lakeside - an all-boys' school for exceptional students. It was Seattle's most exclusive school and was noted for its rigorous academic demands, a place where "even the dumb kids were smart."

Lakeside allowed students to pursue their own interests, to whatever extent they wished. The school prided itself on making conditions and facilities available that would enable all its students to reach their full potential.

Funds were raised, mainly by parents, that enabled the school to gain access to a computer - a Program Data Processor - through a teletype machine. Type in a few instructions on the teletype machine and a few seconds later the PDP would type back its response.

The students became so single-minded that they soon overtook their teachers in knowledge about computing and got into a lot of trouble because of their obsession. Within months, the whole budget that had been set aside for the year had been used up.

Early games programs such as Lunar Landing were wirtten in what was to become Bill's second language, BASIC.

If Bill Gates was going to be good at something, it was essential to be the best.

Computer time was expensive and, because both boys were desperate to get more time and because Bill already had an insight into what they could achieve financially, the two of them decided to set themselves up as a company. "Let's call the real world and try to sell something to it!"

比尔·盖茨:软件巨人

他的父母决定送他去湖畔中学——一所专门招收超常男生的学校。这是西雅图最独特的学校，以严格的学术要求而闻名，在这里“连哑巴孩子都很聪明”。

湖畔中学允许学生们追求自己的兴趣，无论他们希望达到什么程度。学校为自己提供的条件和设施感到自豪，使所有学生都能充分发挥他们的潜力。

主要由家长筹集资金，使学校能够通过电传打字机使用计算机(程序数据处理机)。在电传打字机上输入几条指令，几秒钟后PDP就会返回它的响应。

学生们变得如此专注，以至于他们很快就在计算机知识方面超过了老师，并因为他们的痴迷而惹上了很多麻烦。几个月之内，为这一年留出的全部预算就用完了。

早期的游戏程序，如登月，都是用后来成为比尔的第二语言BASIC编写的。

如果比尔盖茨想要做好某件事，他必定要做得最好。

电脑时间很贵，而且，因为两个男孩都迫切地想要有更多的时间，而且比尔已经洞察到他们在经济上能取得多大的成就，他们俩决定成立一家公司。“让我们给现实世界打电话，试着向它推销一些东西!”