https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-on-dropping-out-of-harvard-for-the-computing-revolution-2018-2
He said he was "a little worried" that the revolution — putting personal computers in every home, office, and now, pocket across the world — would happen without him.
"When the first computer using that microprocessor came out, Paul [Allen, cofounder of Microsoft] and I said we've got to be the first to get in on this," Gates said. "And that's when I left school."