Bill Gates Biography

William (Bill) H. Gates, he's a man of few words, many ideas, and he’s the richest man on Earth. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle Washington. His father was an attorney and his mother was a school teacher. (Bill Gates, 1) Bill excelled in school, at Lakeside a private school. (Dickson, 91) At Lakeside he got his first encounter with computers, and it’s there that he first learned to program.
Lakeside had a pretty big budget so they bought a computer for the kids to play on. Many children took turns playing on it, but some got known as the “computer nerds”. Bill Gates was one of them. Another one was Paul Alan who played a large roll in the development of Microsoft, a multi-billion dollar business. Bill and his programming friends started up a club at Lakeside just for programming. They would make programs and sell them. At one point Bill was kicked out, but was quickly invited back in because his superb business skills were needed to make p...