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Teenage Gates Tweaks Lakeside's Scheduling Program to Land in Classes With Girls
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As a Lakeside School student around 1971, Bill Gates helped write the program that scheduled students into classes — and quietly tweaked it to his own advantage. 'By the time I was done, I found that I had no classes at all on Fridays,' Gates later recalled, 'and even better, there was a disproportionate number of interesting girls in all my classes.' The cheeky episode, which he recounted in a 2005 speech at the school, is a favorite anecdote about his teenage knack for bending software to his will.
Source: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/speeches/2005/09/bill-gates-lakeside-school
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