By Mary Riddell, the Telegraph
He’s the most charitable man on the planet, but how does the billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates indulge himself? Mary Riddell finds out in this exclusive interview. Not all Conservative voters may feel so buoyant about the ring-fencing of the aid budget, but let that pass. Leave aside, too, the fanfares of others and his own evangelism, and Mr Gates, at 54, is the kind of prophet whose spectacles and nondescript suit brand him an off-the-peg geek. Does he mind that label? “Well, when geek means that you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, then I plead guilty, gladly. Also, I kinda hang around with people who are like that. In our work, numbers give you the sense of scale, and then you meet the individual mothers and children and farmers. So yes, it’s good. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.”
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