Bill Gates
Bill Gates
William Henry "Bill" Gates IIIis an American business magnate, entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor, and programmer. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 October 1955
CitySeattle, WA
CountryUnited States of America
The vision is that people should have the ultimate in convenience. Being able to get the things they care about on the appropriate device.
The vision is really about empowering workers, giving them all the
This is something we're very committed to, it's something that I think people are underestimating right now as they've seen some of the dot-com promises not come through. I think they're missing the fact that the basic technology is moving forward, the new platforms are here and this vision of the digital decade will be a reality.
[Smart] is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.
Like a human being, a company has to have an internal communication mechanism, a "nervous system", to coordinate its actions.
Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it.
I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth.
Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.
The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.