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 Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they?
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains.
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.
Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.
Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software.
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people.
It is hard to smash a computer when you're laughing.
The kids are a big part of my schedule.
We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.