William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington. Gates had an overwhelming advantage to succeed in life because of the family he was born into. His father William Henry Gates Jr., a prominent corporate attorney, and his mother Mary Maxwell, board member of the First Interstate Bank. Bill Gates was born into a family with a history in business, politics, and community service. When Bill was a small boy, it was obvious that he inherited the ambition, intelligence, and competitive nature that had made his family prosperous. Bill Gates was also gifted for his intellect in science, math, and his strange passion for computers. Gates can also be considered as a genius because of his precocious adolescent curiosity. "At the age of eight, Bill started to read the 1960 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. ' I was determined to read straight through every volume,' he recalled." (Lesinski 12)
             Gates has ultimately become known as the richest, most successful business man in the world. Bill Gates' net worth is more than any of us can imagine, nonetheless ever acquire. With this, Bill Gates has now become one of the most powerful people in the world with his net worth totaling more than some third world countries. He has managed to impact our lives in tremendous ways. We probably wouldn't even know how to handle ourselves if computers were not around to assist us in our lives. Computers are now used in our daily routines and Bill Gates has been able to make them so easy for us to use and within a regular family's budget, now almost every household has at least one PC.
             Bill Gates attended Laurelhurst Elementary School until the sixth grade, a public school located in Seattle. At Laurelhurst, "he applied himself in the subjects he liked-math and reading-but made little effort at those that he found boring"; (Lesinski 14) while at Laurelhurst other students sometimes thought of Gates as the class-clown becau...