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The empire he's built up in less than two decades (Microsoft) is the world's largest software company. By the time he was in his senior year at high school, he was a programmer for TRW - one of the biggest aerospace electronics concerns in America. At school in 1968 (at the age of 12) he and a friend made $4.200 writing a set of programs to sort out class timetables and his school used it.

He believes that his company's computer products will change our lives: it is the magic of the machines that drives him. The trouble is, with Gates you're not sure if it's the instant art beautiful landscapes he appreciates or the powerful computer technology that makes them possible. It's art on demand: show me the Rembrandts, show me the Michelangelo, show me Mount Everest, show me Moscow, show me sail-boats, a sunset, the desert, and immediately you'll see these wonderful pictures on the walls. 'The only thing that's really special is the idea of being surrounded by extremely high-resolution screens, and a very large image database, where you can call up about a million different images, of which 400.000 are works of art. It is not meant as a prototype for 21st-centure living. 'It won't be finished for almost three years, so it's probably the most famous house in the world that doesn't exist', he says. The house is becoming almost as well known as he is. Gates is building a house (a modest 520-million dream home) packed with electronic gadgets, including some that do not exist yet. The computer-obsessed kid turned into, well, a computer-obsessed 37-year-old*. Twenty years out of school, Bill Gates has changed: $7 billion dollars makes a difference. Now, Gates doesn't answer the phone when they call. 'No one would talk to him because we were all too busy hanging around'. He was the guy least likely to succeed, 'with the emotional maturity of a six-year-old, who spent all his time in the computer room', according to one Seattle stockbroker.

Bill Gates's schoolmates didn't like him much.

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