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This can be taken to mean that private curiosity matters as much as grand knowledge. It points to the simple pleasure of opening a book, not for status or display, but for the quiet expansion that reading gives. It lands for anyone who prefers old, strange, or overlooked books and finds comfort in the physical act of beginning one.
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About Bill Gates
American businessman and philanthropist
Bill Gates is an American businessman and philanthropist. He is known as a pioneer of the microcomputer revolution and as the co-founder of Microsoft, which he started in 1975 with his childhood friend Paul Allen. After Microsoft went public in 1986 and its share price rose, Gates became the world’s youngest billionaire in 1987. He later topped Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest people for many years, and in 1999 he became the first centibillionaire when his net worth briefly passed US$100 billion.
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Books by Bill Gates
Business @ the speed of thought
2000
The Road Ahead
2008
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
2021
The impatient optimist
2012