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The little piano boy who was born to play the piano

In 1982, Lang Lang was born in Shenyang A family full of music. His grandfather was a music teacher, and his father Lang Guoren was an art soldier. He worked as a professional erhu actor in the army and worked in the Shenyang Public Security Bureau after retiring. Under the influence of his family environment, Lang Lang became interested in music at an early age, especially after his parents bought him a domestic upright piano.

One day, the TV series "Journey to the West" was playing on the TV. When he heard Jiang Dawei's song "Dare I Ask Where the Road Is", Lang Lang was filled with passion and immediately immersed himself in the music. The singing was over, but the unrestrained melody was still lingering in his heart, so Lang Lang started playing on the piano without knowing it. Lang Lang almost played most of the melody of this song. He is truly a self-taught prodigy! The parents were very happy and decided to send their son to learn piano.

When Lang Lang was 4 years old, his father took him to meet Professor Zhu Yafen of Shenyang Conservatory of Music. When Lang Lang sat in front of the piano and played the music, Professor Zhu was very surprised that such a young child could play the music so touchingly! It seems that this child has a certain musical element in his heart. No, it should be said that his whole body is full of music! The more Professor Zhu listened, the more moved he became, and he said to Lang Lang's father: "This is a very talented child who was born to play the piano! I will definitely teach him well."

For the sake of the future "World-famous pianist"

When practicing piano, Lang Lang would set new goals for himself every once in a while. Whoever plays better will remember his name and vow to surpass. While surpassing others, my piano skills improved and I became more and more confident in practicing the piano well. From the day Lang Lang learned the piano,

his father designed and arranged a timetable to achieve better learning results. Dad also set aside the entire living room for Lang Lang to practice piano.

With the support of his whole family, Lang Lang gradually developed a good habit of playing the piano every day. Every morning, as soon as Lang Lang's piano plays, the neighbors know that it's time to get up and go to work, otherwise they will be late.

When Lang Lang was 5 years old, he won first place in the Shenyang Children’s Piano Competition.

For Lang Lang’s tomorrow

When Lang Lang was 9 years old, his father asked Lang Lang to study piano at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, so he resigned and wrote a resignation letter to the leader of the unit. , to the effect of: "I must go to Beijing to cultivate my son!"

Soon, Professor Zhao Pingguo of the Central Conservatory of Music met Lang Lang and thought that Lang Lang had a relatively high IQ and was very talented in music. Professor Zhao said to Lang Lang's father: "If I work hard to train him, this child's future development prospects will be no less than that of the famous Russian young pianist Kissin." In this way, Lang Lang was accepted as a disciple by Professor Zhao Pingguo. I go to cultural classes every morning and piano lessons in the afternoon. In order to learn more about piano knowledge, his father would stand outside Lang Lang's classroom to "eavesdrop" every class. After class came home, the father and son would discuss the teacher's lesson while eating. At the age of 10, he was admitted to the Primary School Attached to the Central Conservatory of Music with first place results.

Lang Lang had to complete 8 hours of training every day. Gradually, he became able to skillfully play the very difficult Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, and he could also play Rachmaninoff 's Piano Concerto No. 3. Even the famous conductor Maazel was surprised: "Where did Lang Lang lay his piano foundation?" Someone told him: "Lang Lang learned it in China." Maazel Express disbelief.

Lang Lang himself is a piano

Soon, Lang Lang got an opportunity to go to Germany to participate in a musician competition. However, for five years in Beijing, the lives of three people depended on Lang Lang. How difficult it is for my mother to support it alone! Lang Lang had to pay his own expenses to participate in international competitions and had to come up with 50,000 yuan. Without telling Lang Lang, his father borrowed 50,000 yuan from relatives and friends and accompanied Lang Lang to Germany.

As a result, 12-year-old Lang Lang won the first place!

After Lang Lang won first place in the Tchaikovsky Piano Competition, his father asked Lang Lang to drop out of the Central Conservatory of Music and apply for the Curtis Institute of Music in the United States. Lang Lang once again entered this famous music conservatory in the United States with first place results.

There, Lang Lang studied various courses while attending cultural classes in a local high school. In addition to his increasingly mature piano skills, Lang Lang also took the first step as a professional pianist from here. He successively gained opportunities to cooperate with large orchestras such as the Cleveland Symphony and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and his piano skills improved a lot. Big improvement.

On August 14, 1998, the star concert at the Ravinia Music Festival in Chicago, USA was held. This is a 5-hour long music festival, inviting 5 world-famous pianists to join in the performance. Not only did Lang Lang get to hear the famous pianist perform, but he was also listed as an understudy for pianist Andre Watts. Because the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, one of the "big five" in the United States, withdrew due to Andre Watts' illness, it took a fancy to Lang Lang and wanted to collaborate with him. Lang Lang performed Tchaikovsky's "Piano No. 1" with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the famous conductor Ansenbach, which made the audience of 30,000 excited! "Chicago Tribune" said: "Lang Lang is the greatest and most exciting piano genius in the world."

"The Life of Bill Gates"

Nowadays, if you There is a personal computer on the desk, almost all of which are equipped with Microsoft operating system. Bill Gates made personal computers a daily necessities and thus changed the way every modern person works, lives and even interacts. Therefore, some people say that Bill Gates' contribution to software is like Edison's contribution to light bulbs.

Bill Gates spent his childhood in Seattle, Washington, USA. Seattle is the base of Boeing Company. Nearly half of the employees in the city work for this company, so people also call Seattle Boeing City. It is one of the three gateways to the West Coast of the United States along with San Francisco and Los Angeles.

What Gates, a 7-year-old boy with sandy hair, likes to read over and over again is the "World Book Encyclopedia". He often read this big book, which was almost 1/3 of his weight, for several hours, reading it from beginning to end, word for word. He often fell into deep thought, and seemed to feel strongly that what a magical and magical world was contained in the small words and huge books! The symbols of words can actually record and disseminate countless interesting things about our predecessors and people from all over the world. He also thought that human history will become longer and longer, so won’t encyclopedias in the future become larger and heavier? Is there any good way to make a magic box as big as a magic box that can contain a large encyclopedia all-inclusively? How convenient it would be. This wonderful spark of thought was later realized for him, and it was smaller than a cigarette box and only needed a small chip.

Gates is reading more and more books and thinking about more and more questions. Once he suddenly said to his fourth-grade classmate Carl Edmond: Rather than being a grass in the lawn, it would be better to be an oak tree standing on a bald hill. Because the grass is the same and has no personality, while the oak tree is tall and straight, holding its head high in the sky. He insists on keeping a diary and writes down his thoughts at any time. At a young age, he is often as thoughtful as an adult. He realized very early that human life is hard-won and he should cherish this precious opportunity before he is alive. He wrote in his diary: Life is a grand appointment. For a person, the most important thing in life is to keep the supreme promise made by the accumulated wisdom of mankind... So what is the promise? Just want to do something earth-shattering. He wrote in another diary: Perhaps, human life is like a burning fire, and all a person can do is to try his best to save something from this fire. This awareness of chasing life is very rare among children of the same age.

Whether it is the promise that Gates thinks about or the pursuit of things that he wants to save in life, it is reflected in Gates' daily actions, that is, any homework in school and homework assigned by the teacher, whether it is playing a musical instrument , whether writing a composition, or competing in sports, he will devote all his efforts and spend all his time to complete it to the best of his ability.

The teacher assigned his fourth-grade students a composition about the special functions of the human body, requiring four or five pages. As a result, Gates used the encyclopedia and other medical, physiological, and psychological books in his father's study to write more than 30 pages in one breath. Another time, the teacher asked his classmates to write a story of no more than 20 pages. Gates thought about it and wrote a 100-page magical and twists and turns story, which surprised both the teacher and classmates! Everyone said about him: No matter what Gates does, he always likes to reach the top, and he will be a blockbuster, otherwise he will not be reconciled.

Gates also shows this spirit of not falling behind in sports and social activities. Once during the summer vacation, the Boy Scouts went on an 80-kilometer walking march, which lasted for a week. He wore a pair of brand-new high boots. Obviously, the new shoes did not fit well. The 13-kilometer walking march every day involved climbing mountains and walking through forests. He suffered a lot. On the first night, his heels were scraped and there were many blisters on his toes. He gritted his teeth and kept going. The next night, his feet were extremely red and swollen, and the cracked skin was bleeding. His companions advised him to stop moving forward, but he shook his head and asked the team doctor for some cotton wool and gauze bandage, as well as some painkillers, and continued on his way. In this way, he persisted until a checkpoint on the way. When the leader found that his feet were seriously inflamed and ordered medical treatment, the march was suspended. Gates' mother came from Seattle. When she saw the ulcers on his feet, she cried sadly and complained about why her son didn't stop marching earlier. Gates said lightly: "It's a pity that I didn't reach my destination this time."

In 1969, Gates' Lakeside Middle School in Seattle was the first school in the United States to offer computer courses. There were no PCs at that time, and the school only got one terminal, which it bought after collecting a large amount of funds from the society and parents. This terminal is connected to the PDP-10, a small electronic computer owned by other units. It can only be used for a short time every day, and the hourly fee is also very high. It was as if Gates had discovered a new world. Whenever he had time, he would get into the computer room to operate the terminal, almost to the point of forgetting to sleep and eat. When he was 13 years old, he independently programmed his first computer program, which could play the moon soft landing game on the computer screen. July 20 of this year happened to be the day when American astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin boarded the lunar module, representing the first time humans set foot on the lunar surface. Gates thought to himself, I can't go to the moon in a spaceship, so let me use a computer to realize my dream of landing on the moon!

But the good times did not last long. After only half a year, Hubin Middle School no longer had the money to pay the rent for the expensive PDP-10 small computer. This incident made Gates as painful as losing the opportunity to go to school, because at this time he was obsessed with computers to the point of being fascinated. So he and his classmates ran around, and finally found an opportunity to help a computer company called CCC catch bugs, and use the money from the bug removal to pay for the cost of operating their computers. What is a bug? This is what people in the computer industry call synonymous with bugs in software, that is, nasty bugs. Because once this kind of bug exists, it will cause the computer to export wrong results or crash. The US Mariner rocket sent to Venus and the French Quayana rocket failed to launch due to computer software failures (bugs), resulting in losses. Hundreds of millions of dollars. Gates excitedly made an appointment with several computer enthusiasts among his classmates. Every night around 6 o'clock, after the employees of CCC Company got off work, they rode their bicycles there to work. There were many teletype terminals available, and there were all kinds of computer software for you to explore. It was really like a duck in water.

Gates was so obsessed with computer software that he stayed there almost all night, just as persistent as he was in elementary school when he was determined to come up with new things. Every night, he had to fill up the notebook of CCC Company. A computer bug he and his friends discovered. Through this period of catching bugs, Gates learned a lot of knowledge and skills in computer hardware and software that could not be learned in books or schools, laying a solid foundation for future research and development.

In 1970, when Gates was 15 years old, his computer skills were already well-known. A company called Information Science approached Gates, hoping to provide computer time using the PDP-10 in exchange for the software technology of Gates and his classmate Paul. Because minors cannot be paid under U.S. law, the company decided to pay them $10,000 worth of computer time and require them to design payroll management software for the company. This gave them enough computer time for a school year, and they couldn't help but be very happy. In 1971, Lakeside Middle School asked Gates to help the school design a set of computer software for class scheduling. At that time, class scheduling was entirely manual. Due to the large number of students and the complexity and variety of courses, people were often unevenly distributed, resulting in overcrowding of students in some courses. Gates successfully completed this arduous task, which allowed him to extend his valuable time using the computer.

In 1973, TRW, a U.S. defense project contractor, wanted to develop a computer supervision and control system for managing reservoirs. However, it could not eliminate various computer bugs, and the progress was slow, and it was about to be punished for breach of contract. . At this critical moment, TRW learned about Gates and Paul Allen, two young computer geniuses, and asked them for help, and the two boys happily agreed. This is a very specialized and difficult job, and according to regulations, middle school students can only receive the low wages of work-study students. But Gates doesn't care. His main purpose is to improve and exercise his software design capabilities through this kind of work. Lakeside Middle School is also very open-minded and allows senior students to go to companies for internships and jobs after completing the required courses. Thanks to the participation of Gates and Paul, TRW finally completed the project on time and avoided huge fines. Gates and Paul received specific guidance from a computer expert in the company, which improved their software skills.

Young Gates In the early 1970s, Gates wrote a famous "Open Letter to Enthusiasts", which shocked the computer world. Gates declared that computer software will be a huge commercial market and that computer enthusiasts should not copy computer programs without the consent of the original author. The computer industry at that time was influenced by hacker culture and believed that creativity and knowledge should be shared among others. Gates subsequently left campus and founded one of the world's most successful companies, Microsoft, and gradually industrialized software.

In 1975, Gates, who was only 19 years old, predicted: "We realize that the software era has arrived, and we have enough insight into the long-term potential of chips. What does this mean? I won't go now I will seize the opportunity to complete my Harvard education. The software industry will never stand still and wait for me.”

However, Gates’ business methods often attract criticism, one of which is MS-DOS. source. In the late 1970s, IBM was planning to enter the personal computer market and officially launched the IBM Personal Computer (PC) in 1981. IBM needs to find a suitable operating system based on Intel's x86 series processors for its products. IBM approached Microsoft after brief negotiations with another company. Microsoft, in turn, found Seattle Computer Company without telling it that it was negotiating with IBM, and purchased the operating system they developed from the company for a reportedly $50,000 (Microsoft supporters said that at the time, Microsoft and IBM IBM has an agreement that stipulates that Microsoft cannot disclose negotiations to outsiders). Microsoft later authorized IBM to use the operating system (which has been renamed PC-DOS). Microsoft also negotiated with other computer manufacturers to install the modified MS-DOS system on every new computer.

Afterwards, Seattle Computer sued Microsoft for purchasing the company's products at extremely low prices without disclosing the facts, but the two parties eventually reached an out-of-court settlement. Gates' reputation was damaged again by a series of U.S. government cases against Microsoft in the late 1990s.

In the mid-1980s, Gates was optimistic about the prospects of optical discs as a data storage medium, so he actively promoted CD-ROM. But just last year, he announced that DVD would be phased out.

When Apple applied the mouse to the user interface in its new product Lisa in 1983, it was a revolution in the personal computer industry. Gates immediately realized the importance of a friendly graphical interface.

In 1990, Microsoft launched WINDOWS 3.0.

In 1995, Microsoft launched the Windows 95 operating system, which was a truly epoch-making software. It allows users to get rid of cumbersome and boring DOS commands, thereby making personal computers extremely simple and easy to use.

"The Road Ahead" ("The Road to the Future"), published in 1995, topped the New York Times bestseller list for seven consecutive weeks. Some of the predictions in the book have come true.

Gates has also been accused of business misconduct. Gates has been accused many times of violating U.S. laws (antitrust laws) in many of Microsoft's business practices under his leadership. It has been subject to many lawsuits and is in danger of being split up. What is quite interesting is that at the end of the 20th century, two Bills (Bill Clinton and Bill Gates) encountered lawsuits and troubles almost at the same time.

In 1998, Microsoft launched Windows 98, which was widely welcomed. Microsoft consolidated its dominance in the computer software industry.

In 1999, Gates wrote the book "Future Speed", which showed people how computer technology can solve business problems in new ways. The book is published in more than 60 countries and in 25 languages. Future Speed ??has won critical acclaim and been listed as a bestseller by The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and Amazon.com.

In 2000, Gates appointed his long-time friend Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO, and himself as "Chief Software Architect".

At the end of 2001, Microsoft launched Windows XP. Gates personally came to Times Square to promote Win XP.

On March 10, 2006, the 2006 Forbes "World's Richest List" was announced. Microsoft's Bill Gates became the world's richest person for the 12th consecutive year. His net worth increased from US$46.5 billion. to US$50 billion.

On April 18, 2006, Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, near Seattle. Gates and Steve Ballmer met with Hu Jintao and took President Hu Jintao to visit Microsoft's "Home of the Future." At around 18:30 in the afternoon, Hu Jintao attended the dinner hosted by Gates at his home. (For details, see: /wmr2007/blog/item/d0870759e1e3fd292934f01b.html)

On June 15, 2006, Gates announced that he would retire in July 2008 and would resign as chief software designer. and will no longer participate in Microsoft's management affairs. When announcing the news, Gates seemed relatively calm, but it could not hide a certain sad atmosphere, and some employees even burst into tears. After retiring, Gates will focus on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates donated tens of billions of his family fortune to this charitable foundation and said he would leave only a few million dollars to his three children. A Microsoft employee said: "There is no doubt that his generosity has restored the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.

"Shortly afterwards, Warren Buffett announced that he would donate US$30 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provided that the Gateses are still alive!

On January 30, 2007, Windows Vista was implemented as promised And to. Gates is now busy with his last major event as chief software architect. After July 2008, this most sacred position at Microsoft will be handed over to Ray Oates, and he will devote himself to his foundation. Yes, but this does not mean that he will be indifferent to Microsoft - he said that he will still pay attention to Microsoft's development after retirement and provide constructive suggestions at the appropriate time.

Gates will do so in the future. In addition to his passion for computers and software, Gates is also interested in biotechnology and is a member of the board of directors of ICOS, a company focused on protein-based and small molecule therapeutics. He is also an investor in many other biotechnology companies. Gates also founded Corbis, which is developing one of the world's largest visual information resources - art and photography from public and private collections around the world. Comprehensive Digital Archives. In addition, Gates has invested with mobile phone pioneer Craig McCaw in Teledesic, an ambitious plan to provide two-way broadband telecommunications services around the world. >

It is reported that Gates and the Saudi prince will acquire the famous Four Seasons Hotel

On January 7, 2008, in the global CES2008 exhibition in Las Vegas, Microsoft Exhibition Area. Gates gave a resignation speech! He planned to resign from all positions in July 2008. On June 26, 2008, the Korean President’s Global Advisory Group was formally established, bringing together 15 celebrities from all walks of life including Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates to serve as President Lee Mingbo made suggestions.

Lessons from his life:

Bill Gates was born in Seattle, a city in the northwest corner of the United States. He attended Ridgeview Elementary School and Lakeside Middle School in Seattle. .

Bill has been very energetic since he was a child. He could make the cradle rock as early as an infant. He has been very fond of thinking since he was a child, and he can devote himself to something when he is obsessed with it. He received his enlightenment education from his grandmother. From the fact that his parents worked tirelessly to find clubs and schools suitable for Bill Gates' talent development, they all provided fertile soil and fresh air for the development of his talent.

My grandmother is particularly fond of and smart. She played games with little Bill, especially those involving intelligence. She taught the young Bill to play checkers, chips, bridge and other things she liked to play. When playing games, grandma always said to little Bill: " Think hard! Think hard! "She also often applauded Bill for his good moves and good cards. His grandmother also often asked Bill Gates to read and tell him stories, from which Bill Gates benefited a lot. His grandmother's help and Under his guidance, he became a reader with wide interests and sleepless nights - reading became a good way for him to spend his energy. He really liked the summer reading competition held in a library near his home. He always won the first place among the boys, and occasionally he was brave. Grandma was aware of Bill Gates' potential in thinking and memory, and she always took the opportunity to activate Bill's potential. Sometimes the grandma and grandson would go for a walk in the park, and grandma would often communicate with Bill Gates about playing chess. Technology or reading a good article, let Bill find new ways to express more unique and insightful opinions

Bill Gates' parents also pay great attention to their children's growth. They care a lot about their children's growth and education, and they always spend as much time as possible with their children after work. The family constantly plays various games, from chess to puzzle games, and almost all educational games. /p>

As his son grows older, the environment in the family can no longer satisfy the further development of Bill Gates' talents. Little Bill sometimes blames his mother for his lack of intelligence! So, his parents turn their attention to society and actively help Bill. Looking for his own space. In one activity, Bill Gates prepared a report for the class called "Investing in Gates Co., Ltd."

This report became almost a family affair. His grandmother helped with the cover, and even his father stepped in to help, and the atmosphere was very lively.

After graduating from elementary school, his parents sent Bill Gates to Lakeside Middle School after seeking his advice. At Lakeside High School, Bill became obsessed with computers, which he would devote his entire life to.

When Bill Gates was studying at Lakeside Middle School, he often arranged his studies according to his own interests and hobbies. Bill Gates worked hard on his favorite subjects, such as mathematics and reading, and did very well. Every time his parents saw the report card that Bill got back, although they knew that Bill would learn better in some courses, they did not lower their faces and blame Bill Gates.

After graduating from high school, Bill Gates wanted to go to Harvard University to study. This was also the biggest wish of his parents. Fortunately, Bill Gates' parents do not regard their children as their own private property like other parents, and they must let their children do what their parents like. After calm reflection, the parents gave up the idea of ??letting their son become a lawyer and allowed Bill Gates to develop freely in the university field. This helped Bill Gates a lot.

But a year later, a bigger problem faced Bill Gates' parents: Bill Gates was leaving Harvard, giving up his studies at Jinxiu, and starting a computer company with others!

Bill had many conversations with his parents and calmly expressed his thoughts. What can parents who know their son’s nature and aspirations say? Perhaps my son’s talent and computer career are the best match! Bill Gates resolutely left Harvard University, a place that hundreds of millions of students yearned for, and began to develop his ambitions in the software field.