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Gates was arrested by New Mexico police for speeding, 1977. more
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Gates was arrested by New Mexico police for speeding, 1977. more
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda on their wedding day. here
Young CEO Bill Gates, about 27, in his Microsoft office in 1982. here
Here is his life in pictures:
William Henry “Bill” Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is a business leader, technologist, and philanthropist. He graduated from Lakeside School, in Seattle, WA, in 1973. While at Lakeside, Gates became fascinated with computers and met his future business partner, Paul Allen. He and Allen co-founded Microsoft in 1975 (with Gates dropping out of Harvard to do so), which would eventually become the world’s largest software company. While at Microsoft, Gates transitioned through several roles (including chairman, CEO, and chief software architect). In 2000, he and his wife, Melinda, established the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an international philanthropic organization, with a goal to eventually give away 95% of their wealth in charitable contributions. more
"They could have hired an outside computer expert to do the scheduling system. Teachers could have insisted that they teach classes on computing, simply because they were the teachers and we were the students," Gates says. "But they didn't." [links]
Before enrolling, Gates wasn't sure he would like the school — and he nearly sabotaged his own admission. "When I was in 6th grade, and my mom and dad suggested I go to Lakeside, I wasn't too sure about it," Gates says. "In those days, Lakeside was an all-boys school where you wore a jacket and tie, called your teachers 'master,' and went to chapel every morning. For a while, I even thought about failing the entrance exam."
As a result, he says, "if there had been no Lakeside, there would have been no Microsoft."
It was also at Lakeside that he became friends with Paul Allen, his future business partner and co-founder of Microsoft. here
Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard in 1975 to launch Microsoft but, in a speech he gave at his high school, he implies he could have skipped college altogether and still become a successful billionaire and philanthropist, thanks to the education he got there.
The machinery was new to everyone, students and faculty alike, Gates says. At the time, computers were expensive: The machines cost thousands of dollars, they were slow and they consumed a lot of electricity. "That made computers seem pretty scary to some people here — especially when 13-year-old kids were eager to try their luck next." more
The photo has historical significance, as would a photo of a young Orville Wright building an airplane model or Stephen Hawking with a toy telescope. It captures a moment that my father thought was important, partly because of the people it portrays but mostly because of the place: Lakeside. here
What I see, and what I think my father saw in this casual, messy high-school scene, is the authentic interest of a child, nurtured by amazing teachers, at a great institution. [links]
In 2007 we started a project, in partnership with Lakeside, to digitize the Bruce Burgess photo archive. Bruce’s photos started to appear in Lakeside magazine and other publications. This particular photo, showing Bill and Paul in the basement of what was McAllister Hall, has also been used in books and public displays on the history of computing.
Digitizing the Bruce Burgess photo archive has been a labor of love. My mother worked with the negatives when they were first created, printed many of them, made quick notes on the negative sleeves, and carefully filed them away. Almost 40 years later, she went through the digitized files and painstakingly tagged each one with a date, a location, and the names of the people in the frame. My father was always the photographer, seldom the subject. Every photo my mother tagged was a moment relived through his eyes. As she neared the end of the collection, she was reliving his final days.
Seeing a photo of someone loved and now lost can be painful. Seeing the world through the eyes of a photographer who has been lost, even more so. What gives a photo meaning? Photos can be beautiful, or moving. They can invoke a memory that is dear to us or (as with the photos that come pre-installed in frames at the drugstore) a generic idea of a dear memory. I don’t believe that the world contains a fixed amount of meaning that is sliced into tinier and tinier portions by the growing body of photos. Photography is not a zero-sum game. I believe that a photo carries weight when the photographer, whose perspective we adopt, cares about the subject that he is shooting. We read our own experience into a photo, but we can also see something bigger, outside of ourselves, and that “something” comes from the photographer’s perspective. [links]