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
a chilling effect on innovation in the high-tech industry.
Part of India's great success in the IT sector comes from the fantastic investment that the government has made over decades in institutions like the Indian Institutes of Technology. India only has six or seven million seats at its universities, and it will need 20 to 25 million, so I think this is a great opportunity to rethink the idea of a university.
Hardware is a small part of the cost.
Billy gates why do you make this possible? Stop making money and fix your software!
The growth in employment for Microsoft will be more in India than in the United States.
I guess we still have some bugs to work out, ... That must be why we're not shipping Windows 98 yet.
Kids are really incredible, in terms of how much they dive into this and just take it as a given. They'll be the ones who really bring the web lifestyle into the mainstream.
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.