Bill Gates: My Divorce Is 'Mistake I Regret the Most'

Bill Gates is making the rounds plugging his upcoming autobiography, Source Code My Beginnings, and he tells the Wall Street Journal that he is sure he would be placed on the autism spectrum were he a child in school today. "There's a bit of a pattern match there," he says, referring to his childhood years. "I didn't behave in a standard way." He talks about being slow to socialize, for example, and his tendency to rock back and forth. On the flip side, he had a "deep concentration" that allowed him to excel in math and science, and, of course, the burgeoning world of computers. Other nuggets:

• In an interview with the London Times, Gates calls his divorce from Melinda French Gates the "mistake I regret the most."
• The former Microsoft chief calls the time he spent with Jeffrey Epstein "foolish." (His ties with Epstein appeared to have factored into the aforementioned divorce.)
• He also says it is "really insane that (Elon Musk) can destabilize the political situations in countries." (Germany is an example.)