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 home itself will be like a computer system,
Microsoft has not treated us as a customer.
In the next decade there'll be a shortage of great software engineers. We'll be scouring the schools for them,
It is a great pleasure for me to announce that Steve Ballmer -- my long-term partner in building Microsoft and a great business leader -- is being named CEO,
If you look at our investment in the next version of Windows, security would jump out as the thing we've spent the most time on. Microsoft has a big responsibility here.
If there's any part of the economy that's delivered for all the citizens, it's got to be the work that we and our partners in our industry have done,
Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.
had extremely radical views and weren't interested in seeing a settlement.
I don't think you'd be interviewing me if we were any less nimble. You'd be writing our epitaph.
Absolutely. It's not going to happen overnight, and we should take the tools we have today and get those applied, because we can save half the lives just that way,
If I were a guy who just wanted to win, I would have already moved on to another arena. If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago
It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
If there's one cultural quality we have, it's that we always see ourselves as an underdog.
I read an hour almost every night. It's part of falling asleep.