Page Business Insider points through 13 facts not everyone knows about the richest billionaire in the world: Bill Gates.
As a student at Lakeside Prep School, Bill Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer.This program is a checkered flag that players can play against a computer.
When he realized Bill Gates's computer orientation, the school let him write a class program for students. The sly boy changed the program code so that he could be placed in the class with 'a large number of interesting girls'.
Like many successful tech entrepreneurs, Bill Gates is a college dropout.He left Harvard University in 1975 when he had not graduated and spent all his time with Microsoft.
Bill Gates was once arrested by police in New Mexico state in 1977. At that time, he drove without a license and passed a red light.
Bill Gates often went on a low-class plane until 1997. He now has a private plane and calls it "big show".
One of Bill Gates' big purchases, aside from buying his own plane, is Codex Leicester - a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's autographs.Bill Gates bought this collection in an auction program in 1994 for $ 30.8 million.
Although super rich, Bill Gates said he would only give each of his children $ 10 million. This amount is only a small fraction of his current 83.5 billion assets, according to Bloomberg estimates. 'Giving your children too much money is not a privilege for them,' Bill Gates said.
Bill Gates doesn't know any foreign languages.That is what he regretted the most in his life so far.
Bill Gates' university entrance exam score is 1,590 / 1,600.
Currently, Bill Gates spends most of his time on charity. However, he said he still works with Microsoft in the 'Personal Agent' project. This is a software that Bill Gates said will "remember everything, help users find it when they need it, and help users mark things that need attention."
Bill Gates said that if Microsoft failed him, he would probably become a researcher on artificial intelligence (AI).
While very interested in AI, Bill Gates said, "he is among those who pay attention to super intelligence" .
Bill Gates admires two rock groups, Weezer of America and U2 of Ireland.He also said he was waiting for British rock band Spinal Tap to tour again.
