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
Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year.
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.