Some of the things I didn't know about Bill Gates -
1. He loves diet coke! At one time he opens a refrigerator and it's only stacked with diet coke cans.
2. He reads a crazy amount of books. And he reads them, takes notes and is able to retain all that information. I found that remarkable.
3. He works hard. Really hard. And he takes on problems which seem insurmountable. Whether it's polio eradication, clean water, or nuclear reactors. And he approaches the problems from a technical point of view.
Some of the lines which I liked -
Director: I looked into the most prevalent criticisms of you, and this one actually seems the most relevant. "He's a technophile that thinks that technology will solve everything."
Bill: Yeah, I'm basically guilty of that. Any problem... I will look at how technical innovation can help solve that problem. It's the one thing I know and the one thing I'm good at. And so, you know, that's my hammer. And so lots of problems look like nails because I've got a hammer.
Director: Is there a part where you say, "This is way too hard, I took on too much, I quit".
Bill: Sometimes, you really do have to say, "Let's give up". And sometimes, you have to just say, "I need to work harder"
Mary Gates (Bill's mother): "Each one of us has to start out with developing his or her own definition of success. And when we have these specific expectations of ourselves, we're more like to live up to them. Ultimately, it's not what you get or even what you give. It's what you become."