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
Good programmers stay open minded to that even though there is no obvious way to improve what they've done they... they keep looking and they listen to what other people have to say.
The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.
In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.
What I do best is share my enthusiasm.
About three million computers get sold every year in China, but people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade.
Every day were saying, 'How can we keep this customer happy?' How can we get ahead in innovation by doing this, because if we don't, somebody else will.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
Another trick in software is to avoid rewriting the software by using a piece that's already been written, so called component approach which the latest term for this in the most advanced form is what's called Object Oriented Programming.
It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life.
See the clock only when you have No work.... Don't see the clock when you are working.... Clock is a lock for success
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.