Microman is a book about the cult of personality surrounding the world's richest man—Bill Gates.
Bill Gates, chairman and CEO of Microsoft, is richer than royalty. How did such a shy, unassuming guy with glasses attain so much wealth and power? This question and others are answered in Microman, a collection of quotations, statistics, and anecdotes about the Man from Redmond, Washington.
Just over ten years ago, relatively little was known about Gates. Even when he became an overnight millionaire in 1986 people shrugged him off as another "techie." But today, a cult of personality has developed around the man who has shaped our future. Who is Bill Gates? What is it like to have so much money? What would you do with it? What would life be like if you were Bill Gates?
Microman shows you Bill's world through your own eyes: how your parents were worried because you were "different" (perhaps because at the age of five you signed an agreement with your sister allowing you unlimited access to her baseball mitt in exchange for five dollars); how you dropped out of Harvard in your junior year and moved to New Mexico, where you founded a company called Micro-Soft; and how you are now so rich, if you wanted to spend your entire fortune in eleven years, you would have to spend $145 for every second of every hour of every day.
Microman is full of notions, proposals, and suggestions on how life would be different if you were Bill Gates instead of the ordinary, broke chump that you are. This irreverent book is a primer for would-be self-starters and a cautionary tonic for corporate conspiracy theorists. In the world of Bill Gates, bigger may be better, but "Micro" is best.
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I.B. McIntosh is a self-described cybergeek and trivia collector who dabbles in freelance mathematics. He lives and works in Vancouver.
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Brillant and witty -- the must read Bill Gates book of 1998,
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You would be crazy to buy any other Bill Gates book. This is an insightful look at the world's richest man -- from the days of his youth, the big battles with Apple and IBM, and revealing insights into the big anti-trust case. It also includes a "built-in" flip book too that allows you to re-live the "pie-in-the-face" -- COOL!
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At some point in our lives every one of us has looked around the room or across the table at our friends and family and asked the question: "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bill Gates, Swiftwater Bill, Paul Allen, United States, Department of Justice, Noël Godin, Steve Ballmer, Mother Jones, New Mexico, New York Times, The Road Ahead, United Way, Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, David Shenk, Lake Washington, Lakeside School, San Francisco, University of Washington New!
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At some point in our lives every one of us has looked around the room or across the table at our friends and family and asked the question: "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bill Gates, Swiftwater Bill, Paul Allen, United States, Department of Justice, Noël Godin, Steve Ballmer, Mother Jones, New Mexico, New York Times, The Road Ahead, United Way, Warren Buffett, Bill Clinton, David Shenk, Lake Washington, Lakeside School, San Francisco, University of Washington New!
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- The Road Ahead (Penguin Readers, Level 3) by Gates on 4 pages
- Black Sand and Gold by Ella Lung Martinsen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Klondike Stampede by Edwin Tappan Adney in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Back Matter
- Rhinestone Cowboy (Crystal Creek #15) by Bethany Campbell on page 77
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