Petak, 27. jun 2008. - Objavljeno 14:40 GMT

Bil Gejts se povukao

As a teenager Bill Gates had a vision of a personal computer on every desk in every home. He says he caught sight of the future and based his career on what he saw. The son of a successful lawyer from Seattle, Gates programmed his first computer at the age of 13. During his two years at Harvard University he spent much of his time finessing his programming skills, as well as enjoying the occasional all night poker session.

He eventually dropped out of college and moved to Albuquerque, in New Mexico, where he set up Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen. Their big break came in 1980 when Microsoft signed an agreement with IBM to build the operating system that became known as MS-DOS. Microsoft went public in 1986 and within a year Bill Gates, at 31, had become the youngest self-made billionaire.

Now 52, he still has boyish looks, but he's no longer the world's richest man. He's been overtaken by the investor Warren Buffett and the Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim.

But Gates' fortune is at the root of his decision to leave his day job and concentrate on his charitable organisation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He'll remain as Microsoft's chairman and work on special technology projects, but according to Gates, great wealth brings great responsibility and his future work will include finding new vaccines and financing projects in the developing world.

Peter Bowes, BBC News, Los Angeles

caught sight of the future
zavirio u budućnost, stekao predstavu o budućnosti

finessing
briga o sitnim detaljima, usavršavanje, osvajanje novih tehnika, učenje

poker
poker, kartaška igra

dropped out of
prekinuo studije, prestao da studira

set up
osnovao, započeo

big break
proboj, prilika da postane slavan i uspešan

Microsoft went public
proizvodi Majkrosofta pojavili su se u radnjama, postali su svima dostupni

telecom tycoon
tajkuni u oblasti telekomunikacija, bogati ljudi ili monopolisti u medijskoj ili telekomunikacionoj industriji

at the root of
glavni razlog, koren problema

great wealth brings great responsibility
veliki novac (bogatstvo) sa sobom nosi i veliku odgovornost