11/96Number of weeks Bill Gates served as a congressional page in 1972: 8
2/96Chances that the phrase “you will” appears on a page of Bill Gates’s new book, The Road Ahead: 1 in 5
3/96Number of high-resolution computer screens to be installed in Bill Gates’s new home: 40
1/98Number of hours a Moscow hotel flew a Microsoft flag within view of Red Square last fall when Bill Gates visited: 36
Number of lunches Gates ate in Moscow that were not from McDonald’s: 0
2/99Percentage of his wealth that Bill Gates has pledged to donate this year for children’s vaccines in poor countries: 0.0016
3/00Rank of Adam Sandler and Bill Gates among the most popular role models with male college freshmen: 1,2
11/02Percentage of U.S. college students who believe the “next Bill Gates” is among today’s generation of college students: 50
Percentage who say they are the next Bill Gates: 24
2/04Amount Bill Gates has pledged to fight malaria through 2008, expressed as a percentage of USAID spending since 1998: 86
4/08Amount that Rudy Giuliani’s campaign spent to win a single Republican delegate: $48,000,000
Amount it would have cost him to win the nomination at this rate, expressed as a percentage of Bill Gates’s net worth: 97
4/08Rank that next year’s giving goal of Bill Gates’s foundation would hold on the Forbes 400 if it were a person: 91