蓋茨出生於1955年10月28日，他和兩個姐妹壹起在西雅圖長大。他們的父親William H.GatesII是西雅圖的壹名律師。他們的已故母親Mary Gates曾任中學教師、華盛頓大學的校務委員以及United WayInternational的女主席。
蓋茨曾就讀於西雅圖的公立小學和私立湖濱中學，在那裏，他開始了自己個人計算機軟件的職業經歷，13歲就開始編寫計算機程序。
1973年，蓋茨進入哈佛大學壹年級，在那裏他與Steve Ballmer住在同壹樓層，後者目前是微軟公司總裁。在哈佛期間，蓋茨為第壹臺微型計算機－MITSAltair開發了BASIC編程語言。BASIC語言是John Kemeny和Thomas Kurtz於六十年代中期在Dartmouth學院開發的壹種計算機語言。
三年級時，蓋茨從哈佛退學，全身心投入其與童年夥伴Paul Allen壹起於1975年組建的微軟公司。他們深信個人計算機將是每壹部辦公桌面系統以及每壹家庭的非常有價值的工具，並為這壹信念所指引，開始為個人計算機開發軟件。
蓋茨有關個人計算機的遠見和洞察力壹直是微軟公司和軟件業界成功的關鍵。蓋茨積極地參與微軟公司的關鍵管理和戰略性決策，並在新產品的技術開發中發揮著重要的作用。他的相當壹部分時間用於會見客戶和通過電子郵件與微軟公司的全球雇員保持接觸。
在蓋茨的領導下，微軟的使命是不斷地提高和改進軟件技術，並使人們更加輕松、更經濟有效而且更有趣味地使用計算機。微軟公司擁有長期的發展戰略，這壹點可以從本財政年度26億美元的研究與開發投資中得到反映。
1995年，蓋茨編寫了《未來之路書》，在書中，他認為信息技術將帶動社會的進步。該書的作者還包括微軟公司首席技術官Nathan Myhrvold以及PeterRinearson，它在《紐約時報》的最暢銷書排名中連續7周位列第壹，並在榜上停留了18周之久。
《未來之路》在20多個國家出版，僅在中國就售出40多萬冊。 1996年，為充分利用Internet所帶來的新的商機，蓋茨對微軟進行了戰略調整，同時，他又全面修訂了《未來之路》，在新版本中，他認為交互式網絡是人類通訊歷史上壹個主要裏程碑。再版平裝本同樣榮登最暢銷排行榜。蓋茨將其稿費收入捐給了壹個非盈利基金，用於支持全世界將計算機與教學相結合的教師。
除計算機情結之外，蓋茨對生物技術也很感興趣。他是ICOS公司的董事會成員以及英國Chiroscience集團及其位於華盛頓州的全資子公司-ChiroscienceR&D公司?前身是DarwinMolecular）的股東。他還創立了Corbis公司，該公司正在開發全球最大的可視化信息資源之壹，提供全球公***與私人收藏的藝術和攝影作品的綜合性數字文檔。蓋茨還與蜂窩電話的先驅者CraigMcCaw***同投資了Teledesic公司，該公司雄心勃勃地計劃發射數百個近地軌道衛星，為全世界提供雙向寬帶電信服務。
在微軟公司上市的12年時間裏，蓋茨已向慈善機構捐獻8億多美元，包括向蓋茨圖書館基金會捐贈2億美元，以幫助北美的各大圖書館更好地利用信息時代帶來的各種新技術。1994年，蓋茨創立了William H.Gates基金會，該基金會贊助了壹系列蓋茨本人及其家庭感興趣的活動。蓋茨捐獻的四個重點領域是：教育、世界公***衛生和人口問題、非贏利的公眾藝術機構以及壹個地區性的投資計劃-Puget Sound。
蓋茨1994年1月1日與Melinda French Gates結婚，他們有壹個孩子Jennifer Katharine Gates,1996年出生。蓋茨是壹個讀書迷，而且很喜歡打高爾夫和橋牌。
比爾·蓋茨名言
（1）生活是不公平的，要去適應它；
（2）這世界在妳有成就前不會在意妳的自尊；
（3）高中畢業別指望擁有太多；
（4）在有老板前別認為妳老板嚴厲，而老板是沒有任期限制的；
（5）烙牛肉餅不會有損妳的尊嚴；
（6）妳的困境不是妳父母的過錯；
（7）妳的父母壹直為妳付帳單才變成現在的乏味；
（8）妳的學校可能不分優等生和劣等生，但這與現實生活沒有任何相似之處；
（9）生活中妳沒有暑假可以休息，也無人幫妳發現自我；
（10）電視不是真實的生活；
（11）善待乏味的人，妳可能會為壹個乏味的人工作。
Bill.Cover a 茨 brief introduction:The H of William(Bill).Cover the 茨 is the geneses person,former incumbent president whom global personal calculator software leads the supplier － Microsoft company and chief executive officer, cover the net asset value of the 茨 :564 USD hundred million.
Cover the 茨 was born in in 1955 October 28th, he grew up in Seattle together and two sisters.Their father's William H.GatesII is a lawyer of Seattles.Their died mother Mary Gates has ever allowed the school administration member of committee of high school teacher,University of Washington and the female chairman of the United WayInternational.
Cover 茨 to have ever studied in the common school of Seattles with the private lake front high school, over there, he starts oneself's personal occupation of the calculator software experience, 13 years old start write calculator procedure.
Covered 茨 into Harvard in 1973 grade one, he lived with the Steve Ballmer in same floor over there, the latter was a Microsoft president of company currently.During the period of Harvard, the cover 茨 for a the pedestal microcomputer － MITSAltair developped the BASIC plait distance language.The BASIC language is the John Kemeny and the Thomas Kurtz in the mid 60's a kind of calculator language in the Dartmouth college development.
Grade three, the cover 茨 drops out from school from Harvard, the whole body heart throws in it and childhood colleague's Paul Allen is together in 1975 set the Microsoft company for set up.They believe deeply personal calculator will is each a the set transact the table's top system and each family of terrific value tool, and is guide by this conviction, the beginning is personal calculator development software.
Cover 茨 relevant personal calculator of the farseeing and insight have been the Microsoft company and the software industry successful key.Cover 茨 to participate the key management of the Microsoft company progressively with the strategic decision, and develop an important function in new technique development of the product.His equal part of time used for the global employee that meets customer and passes E-mail and the Microsoft company to keep contact.
While cover the leadership of the 茨 , the mission of the Microsoft raises and improves the software technique constantly, and make people are relaxed more,more economic effectively and more the interesting ground usage calculator.The Microsoft company owns a long-term development strategy, this can get a reflection from this fiscal year the research and the development investment of USD 2,600,000,000.
Covered 茨 to write in 1995 《the road book of the future 》, in the book, he thought the progress that the information technique will arouse a society.The author of that book still includes the Microsoft company chief technique an officer the Nathan Myhrvold and PeterRinearson, it is in 《 the New York Times 》 of most the bestseller rank continuously for 7 weeks, row first, and stopped over for long 18 weeks on the 榜 .
《The road of the future 》in more than 20 nation publications, only sell in China 40 have another ten thousand volumes. In 1996, is made use of Internet well bring of new business opportunities, the cover 茨 carried on strategy to adjust to the Microsoft, in the meantime, he revised completely again 《the road of the future 》, in the new edition, he thinks handing over with each other the type network is mankind the communication history previous and main milestone.Have a second edition the paperback book and same glory ascends the most popular ranking.Cover the 茨 donated its payment income to a non- earnings fund, useding for supporting the teacher whom the whole world combines together the calculator and teaching.
In addition to the calculator feeling knot outside, the living creature technique for the cover 茨 is also very interested in.He is the board of directors member of the ICOS company and British Chiroscience group and it locates Washington of whole 資 subsidiary-ChiroscienceR& D company?The precursor is a DarwinMolecular)of shareholder.He still established the Corbis company, that company was develop a world biggest of can see to turn one of the information resources, provide a world a public and private art for collect and photograph numerical text file of the comprehensive of the work.The harbinger CraigMcCaw that covers 茨 to return with the beehive telephone invested the Teledesic company together, the company's ambition thrivingly the plan shoot several hundred vicinity district orbit satellites, providing a double toward breadth to take the telecommunication service for the whole world.
In the Microsoft company appear on market of 12 years, cover the 茨 has already made a contribution more than US$800,000,000 toward the pogey, including toward the cover 茨 library foundation to donate USD 200,000,000, each land utilization with better big library of in aid of North Americas uses various new technique that the information brings for ages.Covered 茨 to establish the foundation of William H.Gates in 1994, that foundation sponsored a series cover 茨 oneself and its family interested in activity.Four point realms that cover the 茨 alms BE:Educate,the world public hygiene and population problem,win the public art organization of the benefit and an investment of the local plan not-Puget Sound.
Cover 茨 , January 1st and Melinda French Gates got married in 1994, they had a kid Jennifer Katharine Gates, being born in 1996.Cover the 茨 is a studying fan, and likes to play the golf and game of bridge very much.
Bill the · cover 茨 famous saying
(1)The life is unfair, will adapt it;
(2)This world will not care you before you have results to show of self-respect;
(3)The senior high school graduation don't hope to own too many;
(4)Don't think before having a boss your boss is scathing, but the boss have no tenure restriction;
(5)The 烙 beef a round flat cake will not have 損 you of dignity;
(6)You of the predicament isn't your parents' fault;
(7)You of the parents have been paying the bill a list to just become now for you of dull;
(8)You of the school may not divide excellent grade to living to living with inferior grade, but this and reality the life have no likeness of place;
(9)Your having no summer vacation can take a rest in the life, also unmanned discover ego for you;
(10)The television isn't a true life;
(11)Treat kindly a dull person, you may make for a dull artificial.