Bill Gates 71 歲：19 歲時未寫一行程式碼便承諾交付 BASIC，以及三個啟示
Bill Gates turns 71: the 19-year-old who promised BASIC before writing a line — and 3 takeaways
Bill Gates 19 歲時與 Paul Allen 聲稱已為 Altair 8800 開發 BASIC，之後用約八星期完成程式，並在真實硬件上首次示範時一次成功。兩人於同年 4 月創立 Microsoft；文章總結出三點啟示：及早洞察趨勢、先答應再交付，以及留時間思考。
A story first.
In early 1975, 19-year-old Bill Gates and his friend Paul Allen saw the Altair 8800 computer kit on a magazine cover. They called the maker and said they had a BASIC that ran on it — before they'd written a line of code.
They then worked around the clock for about eight weeks. Allen flew out to demo it; reportedly it was the first time the program ran on real hardware, and it worked on the first try.
That April they founded Microsoft, and later set out a vision that sounded almost absurd at the time: a computer on every desk and in every home.
Gates was born in Seattle on Oct 28, 1955. He turns 71 today.
3 takeaways:
• Spot the trend early: they bet on software when personal computers had barely appeared.
• Say yes — then deliver: the bold claim only worked because of eight weeks of hard work. (Maybe don't try "promise first" at home.)
• Make time to think: Gates has long taken "Think Weeks" to read and reflect.
Then it was a computer on every desk. Now it may be an AI partner on every computer.
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來源：DEV Community · dev.to