The first in a planned trilogy of books about his life, Source Code covers Gates' remarkable childhood in Seattle, his brief stint at Harvard, and the early years of “Micro-soft” in Albuquerque. This is not the behind-the-scenes story of today’s trillion-dollar tech giant.

You can view what’s going on today with AI as simply a continuation of what started with the microprocessor, the PC, the mobile phone, the internet. AI does take it to a new level. Instead of thinking that computing is free, as we improve these systems and make them far more reliable, you’ll actually be able to think of intelligence as being free

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple.