Happy Birth Day to Bill Gates

Bill Gates – A Success Story

Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955 in Seattle in a family having rich business, political and community service background. His great-grandfather was a state legislator and a mayor, his grandfather was vice president of national bank and his father was a lawyer.

Bill believed in achieving his goals through hard work. He also believes that if you are intelligent and know how to use your intelligence, you can reach your goals and targets. From his early days Bill was ambitious, competitive and intelligent. These qualities helped him to attain great position in the profession he chose also Bill was deemed by his peers and his teachers as the smartest kid on campus; Bill’s parents came to know their son’s intelligence and decided to enroll him in a private school, known for its intense academic environment. That was the most important decision in Bill Gate’s life where he was first introduced to computers. Bill Gates and his friends were very much interested in computer and formed “Programmers Group” in late 1968. Being in this group, they found a new way to apply their computer skill in university of Washington. In the next year, they got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. in which they were selected as programmers. ISI (Information Sciences Inc.) agreed to give them royalties, whenever it made money from any of the group’s program. As a result of the business deal signed with Information Sciences Inc., the group also became a legal business.

           Bill Gates and his close friend Allen formed a new company of their own, Traf-O-Data. They developed a small computer to measure traffic flow. From this project they earned around $20,000. The era of Traf-O-Data came to an end when Gates left the college. Upon graduating from Lakeside Bill enrolled in Harvard University in 1973, one of the best universities in the country, He didn’t know what to do, so he enrolled his name for pre-law. He took the standard freshman courses with the exception of signing up for one of Harvard’s toughest mathematics courses. He did well over there, but he couldn’t find it interesting too. He spent many long nights in front of the school’s computer and the next day asleep in class. After leaving school, he almost lost himself from the world of computers. Gates and his friend Paul Allen remained in close contact even though they were away from school. They would often discuss new ideas for future projects and the possibility of starting a business one fine day. At the end of Bill’s first year, Allen came close to him so that they could follow some of their ideas. That summer they got job in Honeywell. Allen kept on pushing Bill for opening a new software company.

           Within a year, Bill Gates dropped out from Harvard. Then he formed Microsoft. Microsoft’s vision is “A computer on every desk and Microsoft software on every computer”. Bill is a visionary person and works very hard to achieve his vision. His belief in high intelligence and hard work has put him where he is today. He does not believe in mere luck or God’s grace, but just hard work and competitiveness. Bill’s Microsoft is good competition for other software companies and he will continue to stomp out (challenge) the competition until he dies. He likes to play the game of Risk and the game of world domination. His beliefs are so powerful, which have helped him increase his wealth and his monopoly in the industry.

           Bill Gates is not a greedy person. In fact, he is quite giving person when it comes to computers, internet and any kind of funding. Some years back, he visited Chicago’s Einstein Elementary School and announced grants benefiting Chicago’s schools and museums where he donated a total of $110,000, a bunch of computers, and provided internet connectivity to number of schools. Secondly, Bill Gates donated 38 million dollars for the building of a computer institute at Stanford University.


"such as the meaning of his name is Bill Gates, which means the gate of the money... 

Patience is a key element of success.” – Bill Gates

 

Enjoy this collection of 27 inspirational Bill Gates quotes.

 “Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.” – Bill Gates

“It’s fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” – Bill Gates

“People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?” – Bill Gates

“If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.” – Bill Gates

“I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.” – Bill Gates

“If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?” – Bill Gates

“We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.” – Bill Gates

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” – Bill Gates

“We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.” – Bill Gates

“Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.” – Bill Gates

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” – Bill Gates

“Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.” – Bill Gates

“Life is not fair – get used to it!” – Bill Gates

“If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.” – Bill Gates

“Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world. If you do so, you are insulting yourself.” – Bill Gates

“As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” – Bill Gates

“‘I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.” – Bill Gates

“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” – Bill Gates

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates

“Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.” – Bill Gates

“Our success has really been based on partnerships from the very beginning.” – Bill Gates

“This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.” – Bill Gates

“The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.” – Bill Gates

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.” – Bill Gates

“Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.” – Bill Gates

“We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” – Bill Gates

Scientist of the day - Evariste Galois

Evariste Galois has been hailed by many as the father of modern algebra. In his short lifetime, he did some phenomenal research work on mathematics and published many of his works. At such a young age, Galois worked out algebraic applications of finite groups, now known as Galois groups, and laid the foundations for the solvability of algebraic equations using rational operations and extraction of roots. It is beyond doubt that his mathematical work helped a great deal in the transformation of the theory of algebraic equations. Along with Norwegian mathematician Niels Abel, he proved the impossibility of solving general quintic equation and polynomial equations of higher degree, in terms of a finite number of rational operations and root extractions. Galois had to endure many misfortunes in his short lifetime, ranging from his father’s untimely demise to many of his works being ignored, misplaced and lost by their caretakers. He had also been a radical Republican during the reign of Louis Philippe in France. 

Childhood & Early Life

Evariste Galois was born on the 25th of October, 1811 in Bourg-la-Rein, near Paris. Both of his parents were well educated in classical literature, religion and philosophy. Evariste’s father, Nicolas-Gabriel Galois, was a Republican and headed the Bourg-la-Reine's liberal party. After Louis XVIII returned to the throne in 1814, Nicolas was appointed the mayor of the village in 1815. Evariste’s mother, the daughter of a jurist, took care of Galois’s education till he turned twelve when he entered the lycée of Louis-le-Grand in Paris in October 1823. Though the school was going through a great upheaval when Galois entered and about 100 students were expelled, he performed well initially and ranked first in Latin which he learnt under his mother’s tutelage. However, he soon lost interest in studies and started taking deep interest only in mathematics, at the age of 14. By February 1827 he enrolled himself for his first mathematics class under M. Vernie. He studied Adrien Marie Legendre's ‘Éléments de Géométrie’ which he mastered in the first reading. By the time he turned 15, Galois was already studying the original papers of Joseph Louis Lagrange, which included ‘Réflexions sur la résolution algébrique des équations’ that seemed to have inspired one of his later work on equation theory. He also studied Leçons sur le calcul des fonctions, which was meant for professional mathematicians. However, his class performance continually declined during this period. In 1828, Galois took the examination of the École Polytechnique, the most prestigious university of Paris, but failed to clear it. That very year, he entered École Normale, a relatively lesser known institution for mathematical studies at the time, where he found some professors who were sympathetic to him.

 

Death

Galois's died on account of a duel that occurred on the 30^th May 1832. Though the reason behind the incident is not clear, there have been a great many speculations. Some letters written prior to his death can be traced back to a woman named Mademoiselle Stéphanie-Félicie Poterin du Motel, who might have shared some of her personal problems with Galois and this could have instigated the duel. While some suggest that the man, who Galois invited for the duel was Pescheux d'Herbinville, was a part of the squad that had arrested him earlier and was also du Motel's fiancé, other accounts suggest that Galois’s opponent was one of his Republican friends. The night before the duel, Galois sent a letter to Auguste Chevalier with three of his mathematical manuscripts attached. On 30^th May 1832, Galois confronted his opponent and was shot in the abdomen. He was discovered, hours later, by a peasant and was taken to the hospital where he passed away the next morning after speaking his final words to his brother Alfred. He died at the age of 20.

 

Major Works

• Galois groups
• General linear group over a prime field