Anecdote Bill Gates When Bill Gates was in the sixth grade, his parents decided that he needed some kind of help. He was at war with his mother Mary, an extrovert woman who believed that he should do what she told him. She would call him to dinner from his bedroom, which she had given up trying to make him clean, but he wouldn't respond. ""What are you doing?"" she once asked him. ""I'm thinking,"" Bill answered. ""You're thinking?"" ""Yes, Mom, I'm thinking,"" he said aggressively. ""Have you t…