When he, his parents, and brothers settled in Queens in the early 1950, the borough was not the multi-ethnic mosaic that it is today. The Wang boys were the only Chinese kids at grade school and on their Little League baseball teamds. Incidents of blatant racism were rare but the family abandoned its first attempt at exchanging their walk-up apartment for a house after neighbors-to-be circulated an anti-Chinese petition. Growing up being different made, Wang highly sensitive to slights. In fact, in Computer Associates early years, Wang would become irate if anyone disrespected his company. Even today, revenge still seems to matter to Wang. Managers who resign are treated as traitors. Anyone who isn't Wang's and Computer Associates friend seems to automatically be its enemy.