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 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.
When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have.
I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.
There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the programs down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they'll just stick in these checks without thinking how they might slow the thing down.
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In fact, I kind of favored just hearing about the accounts we were losing because ... bad news is generally more actionable than good news.
Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.
Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.