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Gates's Guilty Pleasure: 'Cheeseburgers Are My Favorite Food'
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Bill Gates has a confession that sits awkwardly with his climate crusade: 'Cheeseburgers are my favorite food,' he has written, 'but I wish they weren't.' A well-documented fan of fast food, Gates loves the animal fat that makes a real beef burger taste good — even as he warns that beef's methane footprint is a climate problem and invests in plant-based and lab-grown alternatives trying to recreate it. The tension between his palate and his principles has become a recurring, self-aware theme in his writing.
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1990s
Gates keeps a collection of rare and classic cars
Despite his reputation for frugality in some areas, Bill Gates has long indulged a passion for cars, assembling a collection that has included several Porsches — among them the 911 he has owned for decades and the storied 959 — as well as other classics. His automotive tastes, and the saga of importing the then-illegal 959, are among the more colorful footnotes of his personal life.
1990s
Gates retreats for solitary, twice-yearly 'Think Weeks'
For years Bill Gates retreated twice a year to a secluded cabin for a solitary 'Think Week,' during which he read stacks of papers, books, and employee proposals with no interruptions, emerging with strategic memos that shaped Microsoft's direction. The ritual became famous as a model of deep, focused thinking by a busy executive, and was credited with helping spark major pivots — including Microsoft's embrace of the internet. Gates carried the habit of voracious, deliberate reading into his philanthropy.
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