Source Code 《源代码》比尔·盖茨自传

Billionaire memoirs

In "Source Code", the first of a planned three-volume series, Mr Gates recounts his origin story, from his birth in 1955 to the early years of Microsoft in the late 1970s. Folk tales abound about the childhoods of American innovators such as Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin. This book seems to be an effort to define the mythology around the young Mr Gates.

《源代码》是比尔·盖茨自传三部曲的第一部，盖茨在自传讲述了，从1955年出生到20世纪70年代末微软公司成立初期的成长经历。有关托马斯·爱迪生和本杰明·富兰克林等美国创新者童年的民间故事比比皆是，而这部自传似乎在努力把年轻的盖茨打造为神话。

It is no rags-to-riches tale: Mr Gates freely admits that his was a middle-class upbringing. A crucial event in his life was gaining access to a computer at school for the first time at 13. But he also describes his love of hiking with friends in the mountains round Seattle, sometimes for days at a time—a counter to the stereotype of the lonely nerd who never goes outdoors. In these passages you can sense the presence of a ghostwriter.

这部自传不是一个白手起家的故事：盖茨坦率地承认，他成长于中产阶级家庭，人生中的一个重要事件是，13岁时第一次在学校接触到电脑。但他也描述了自己喜欢与朋友在西雅图附近的山区徒步旅行，有时一走就是好几天——这与人们刻板印象形成的他从不出门、没有朋友的书呆子的形象完全不同。在这些段落中，你可能感到这是代笔作家所为。