Yang was always a good student. He graduated from Taipei's prestigious Chien-kuo Senior High and was guaranteed a place in National Cheng Kung University's Department of Electrical Engineering. He soon found a girlfriend, Lu Ping, a student in the university's Department of Foreign Languages. They married young, and their children--a son and a daughter--both own their own businesses today.
從小就是好學生的楊耀武，台北建中保送成大電機系後，很快就交到女朋友，外文系的陸萍，婚結得早，現在一雙兒女都各自擁有事業。