Source Code: Bill Gates' First Autobiography/源代码 比尔盖茨传 比尔·盖茨首部自传

Bill Gates is a highly influential, transformative business leader and philanthropist of our time. This book tells his story of growth. Bill Gates's achievements in the business world are already widely known. At the age of 20, he left Harvard University to found a software company that would become an industry giant, changing the way people work and live. The billionaire then turned his attention to philanthropy, dedicating himself to addressing the challenges of climate change, global health, and American education. This book is not a reminiscence of Bill Gates's glorious years at Microsoft, nor is it about the birth of the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It is a personal story that conveys warmth and humanity, showing how Bill Gates grew into the person he is today, and understanding his passions and aspirations during his childhood and adolescence. Appearing in this story are his disciplined grandmother and ambitious parents, his early deep friendships and the sudden loss of a close friend, his struggles to integrate into society, his amazing discoveries about code and the computer world as a new era was dawning, and his exploration and pursuit of his life's path from a young age. On this path, he once sneaked out of his house in the middle of the night to go to a nearby computer center. Later, in his university dormitory, he ignited the fuse of a technological revolution that would change the world.

比尔·盖茨是当代富有影响力、引领变革的商业领袖和慈善家。这本书讲述的便是他的成长故事。比尔·盖茨在商业领域创造的辉煌早已广为人知。20 岁的他离开哈佛大学，创办了一家日后成为行业巨头的软件公司，改变了整个世界的工作与生活方式。这位亿万富翁随即将注意力转向慈善事业，致力于应对气候变化、全球健康和美国教育领域的重重挑战。这本书并不是比尔·盖茨对微软公司光辉岁月的追忆，也无关盖茨基金会的诞生或技术的未来。这是一个传递着人性温度的个人故事，你将从中看到比尔·盖茨如何成长为今天的他，了解他在童年及青少年时期的激情与志向。出现在这个故事中的，有他严于律己的外祖母和胸怀大志的父母，有他最初的深厚友情和挚友的遽然离世，有他试图融入周遭社会的苦苦挣扎，有他在一个新时代即将到来时对代码和计算机世界的奇妙发现，也有他从少年时便开始的对人生之路的探索与追寻。走在这条路上的他，曾经半夜三更溜出家门，跑到附近的计算机中心，后来，在大学宿舍里，他引燃了即将改变世界的科技革命的导火线。