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
I love building the products, seeing people use the products but you know along with success comes the need for a dialogue with the government.
I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids.
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.
The best teacher is very interactive.
Philanthropy should be voluntary.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries.
The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think about the world at large.
There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.
The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.