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 world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Nigeria has moved into low-middle-income, but their north is very poor, and the health care systems there have broken down.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.
Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.
Any version of Windows is going to have lots of great new things that people use and things that are tough.