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Bill Gates
American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)
The numbers
3 + 1 = 4
Lo Shu grid
Missing: 6, 7. Present digits repeat to show how many times they occur.
Life path 4 — The Builder
Four is the square, the table, the four walls. The tradition gives it method, endurance and an appetite for the unglamorous middle of a project where everyone else has lost interest. It is read as the most trustworthy number and the least celebrated one. Its tension is rigidity — a system built carefully enough becomes hard to change, and 4 is described as defending the structure after the structure has stopped serving the purpose.
Complete lines
Line of Feeling
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Expression
A complete line in the grid.
Line of Resolve
The 1-5-9 diagonal complete. Read as determination that survives the middle of a project, when the initial energy has gone and the result is not yet visible.
Cooperation
A complete line in the grid.
Organisation
A complete line in the grid.
Repeated numbers
1 appears 3 times
Concentrated self-direction. Read as conviction that does not need external agreement — and does not always seek it.
What is missing
Missing 6
Read as a complicated relationship with obligation — either avoiding it or over-shouldering it, rarely a settled middle.
Missing 7
Read as reluctance to sit with an unresolved question. Associated with wanting the working answer rather than the true one.
Vedic — Ank Jyotish
Moolank 1 comes from the day of the month alone; Bhagyank 4 from the whole date. They differ, which is the ordinary case — the two numbers answer different questions.
Surya
The Sun. Authority, visibility, the self as centre. Read as leadership that is seen.
Bhagyank uses the same arithmetic as the Western life path, so the two will always agree. That is not two traditions confirming each other — it is one calculation under two names.
In their words
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
It's not manufacturers trying to rip anybody off or anything like that. There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of.
Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back into the company.
To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination — and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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