STAFF PHOTO BY MAX BECHERER. New Orleans Book Festival co-chair Walter Isaacson will help kick off the three-day literary event at Tulane University by interviewing business magnate Bill Gates on Gates carries a tote bag full of books “everywhere he goes.”. Books are so critical to Gates’s life, the tote bag plays a recurring role in the new Netflix series, Inside Bill’s Brain. The The latest book by Vaclav Smil, How the World Really Works, was number 8! I have been a fan of Vaclav’s work for years—he is one of my favorite authors. But his style is not for everyone. Many of his books are dense and packed with data, and it is an understatement to say they have never sold especially well. Bill Gates reads about 50 books per year, which breaks down to 1 per week; Mark Cuban reads more than 3 hours every day; Elon Musk is an avid reader and when asked how he learned to build rockets, he said "I read books." Mark Zuckerberg resolved to read a book every 2 weeks throughout 2015 Emir is the Head of International and SEO at 12Min. In his spare time, he loves to meditate and play soccer. Business @ the Speed of Thought Summary is a compendium of Bill Gates' prophecies for the future uttered back in 1998. Two decades later, his vision that everybody will have a PC and use the Internet on a daily basis seems fascinatingly Bill Gates Book Recommendation List. Bill Gates does a lot of reading, so recommendations from him should be held highly. Remember, he reads about 50 books per year! Here’s the list of Bill Gates’ book recommendations: The Choice by Dr. Edith Eva Eger; How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil; The Ride of a Lifetime by Bob Iger Musk was bullied a lot as a child in South Africa. He found comfort in fantasy and science-fiction books, which inspired him to leave a legacy in the world. Bill Gates, the richest man in the world and a lifelong bookworm, reads about 50 books a year, but strictly nonfiction ones. Although he gets to visit a lot of places and meet interesting Gates’ remaining 1% stake in Microsoft as of June is worth more than $7 billion, while the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation maintains over $50 billion in assets that can be counted among the Bachus noted that the saying had been attributed to Bill Gates, Arthur C. Clarke, and others. Thanks to “The Yale Book of Quotations” which lists the key citations for Licklider and Gates. Special thanks to Dave Hill who notified QI that the previous version of this article had confused the 1996 and 1999 citations for Bill Gates. Barbarians Led by Bill Gates. Jennifer Edstrom and Marlin Eller were two "insiders" who wrote this book on the success and sordid details of Bill Gates' company. Based on accounts by the daughter of a Microsoft spin doctor and a 13-year veteran Microsoft developer, it gives the scoop on Microsoft's history from the early '80s to the present. FSb1DQ.