The first volume of Bill Gates' memoirs delves into his childhood and the formative experiences that shaped his journey from a precocious and sometimes troublesome kid to a tech visionary. The book examines Gates's complex relationship with his parents, his struggles with social cues, his early passion for programming, and the pivotal role played by his education and friendships.
The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss
“If I were growing up today,” he writes, “I probably would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum. My parents had no guideposts or textbooks to help them grasp why their son became so obsessed with certain projects, missed social cues, and could be rude or inappropriate without seeming to notice his effect on others.”
More significantly, perhaps, some of the parents had raised enough money to buy a Teletype terminal and a block of computer time on a General Electric time-shared computer for pupils’ use. This was extraordinary in the 1960s; it meant that Gates and some of his friends were writing software in their teens. He and a few others even started writing software for companies in the Seattle area.
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