'While he is working, he rocks. Whether he is in business meetings,
on airplanes, or listening to a speech, his upper body rocks down to
an almost 45° angle, rocks back up, rocks down again. His elbows are
often folded together, resting in his crotch. He rocks at different
levels of intensity according to his mood. Sometimes people who are
in the meetings begin to rock with him.
'"I think it's just excess energy," Gates said to me about his
rocking. "I should stop, but I haven't yet. They claim I started at an
extremely young age. I had a rocking horse and they used to put me to
sleep on my rocking horse and I think that addicted me."'