Bill Gates drunk

Bill Gates got drunk at the opening of the World Bank conference in April last year. He didn't know anything about finance or how to use a bank's computers, he admitted later. When confronted at the conference by a student whose question was: "Do you have any idea what you're talking about?" Gates gave a short reply about how he did know, because he was "a mathematician."

The point was, he didn't care what the students would think. Instead he did what he had learned to do before going to the banking world – listen, take the time he needed to think, and try to understand the problem better than other people might.

As the student continued to interrogate him, Gates became more and more frustrated, and he said he just wanted to die.

Eventually he pulled out a handgun and shot himself. It took him five attempts to finish the job – the exact time is the key to understanding an answer that was supposed to be "no" for him.

The whole procedure was an elaborate game. The student was supposed to ask each question like