Editing Bill Gates (section)

== Books ==
In 1989, Gates wrote the foreword to the Microsoft Press book ''[[Learn BASIC Now]]'', by [[Michael Halvorson]] and David Rygmyr, reflecting on the growth of the BASIC language and its use in most of the era's personal computers. He also sketched out plans for BASIC's use as a universal language to embellish or alter the performance of a range of software applications.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gates |first1=Bill |last2=Halvorson |first2=Michael |last3=Rygmyr |first3=David |title=Learn BASIC Now |date=1989 |publisher=Microsoft Press |location=Redmond, WA |pages=ix-x}}</ref>

Gates has authored several books. ''[[The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book)|The Road Ahead]]'', co-authored with Microsoft executive [[Nathan Myhrvold]] and journalist [[Peter Rinearson]], was published in November 1995. It summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global [[information superhighway]]. His second book, ''[[Business @ the Speed of Thought]]'', co-authored with Collins Hemingway, was published in 1999, and discusses how business and technology are integrated, and shows how digital infrastructures and information networks can help to get an edge on the competition. In 2021 he published ''[[How to Avoid a Climate Disaster]]'', which presents what Gates learned in over a decade of studying climate change and investing in innovations to address climate problems.<ref name="Gates2021">Gates, Bill (2021). ''How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need''. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pHK0DwAAQBAJ Description] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404184213/https://books.google.com/books?id=pHK0DwAAQBAJ |date=April 4, 2023 }} & [https://books.google.com/books?id=pHK0DwAAQBAJ arrowed/scrollable preview.]   Knopf. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref> Following the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] Gates published ''[[How to Prevent the Next Pandemic]]'' in 2022 which proposes a "Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization" (GERM) team with annual funding of $1 billion, under the auspices of the WHO.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Adam |last=Vaughan |title=How to Prevent the Next Pandemic review: Bill Gates's timely blueprint |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318203-how-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-review-bill-gatess-timely-blueprint/ |date=May 2, 2022 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US |access-date=May 5, 2022 |archive-date=May 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502214215/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2318203-how-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-review-bill-gatess-timely-blueprint/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Horton |first=Richard |date=May 14, 2022 |title=Offline: Bill Gates and the fate of WHO |journal=The Lancet |language=English |volume=399 |issue=10338 |pages=1853 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00874-1 | pmid=35569450  |s2cid=248726392 |issn=0140-6736|doi-access=free }}</ref>

The first of Gates's planned three memoirs, ''[[Source Code (memoir)|Source Code]]'' was published in February 2025.<ref name='PenguinUK'>{{cite web|title=Source Code|url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/468308/source-code-by-gates-bill/9780241736678|publisher=[[Penguin Books]]|accessdate=January 3, 2024}}</ref>