Source Code: My Beginnings

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「一部令人驚訝地坦率的微軟巨頭早年回憶錄……閱讀本書感覺就像看著某人拿起一張著名的黑白素描，填補細節，並將其塗上鮮豔的色彩。」—《GeekWire》

每個人的設定（程式）都略有不同，而比爾·蓋茲（Bill Gates）獨特的洞察力帶來了如今廣為人知的商業勝利：這位二十歲的哈佛輟學生創立了一家成為行業巨擘的軟體公司，並改變了世界運作和生活的方式；這位多次成為億萬富翁的人，將注意力轉向慈善事業，以應對氣候變遷、全球健康和美國教育問題。

《原始碼》（Source Code）講的不是微軟、蓋茲基金會或科技的未來。這是關於比爾·蓋茲如何成為今天的他的個人故事，充滿人性：他的童年、他早期的熱情和追求。這是關於他有原則的祖母和雄心勃勃的父母、他的第一段深厚友誼以及他最好朋友的突然離世；關於他努力適應環境的掙扎，以及他在一個新時代的黎明發現程式設計和電腦的世界；關於他在青少年時期開始了一條道路，這條道路帶領他從附近電腦中心的午夜冒險，走向他的大學宿舍，他在那裡引發了一場將改變世界的革命。

比爾·蓋茲首次親自講述了這個屬於他自己的故事：充滿智慧、溫暖、揭示真相，這是一幅引人入勝的美國人生畫像。

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age

“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWire

Everyone is programmed a little differently, and Bill Gates' unique insight led to business triumphs that are now widely known: the twenty-year-old who dropped out of Harvard to start a software company that became an industry giant and changed the way the world works and lives; the billionaire many times over who turned his attention to philanthropic pursuits to address climate change, global health, and U.S. education.

Source Code is not about Microsoft or the Gates Foundation or the future of technology. It’s the human, personal story of how Bill Gates became who he is today: his childhood, his early passions and pursuits. It’s the story of his principled grandmother and ambitious parents, his first deep friendships and the sudden death of his best friend; of his struggles to fit in and his discovery of a world of coding and computers in the dawn of a new era; of embarking in his early teens on a path that took him from midnight escapades at a nearby computer center to his college dorm room, where he sparked a revolution that would change the world.

Bill Gates tells this, his own story, for the first time: wise, warm, revealing, it’s a fascinating portrait of an American life.