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 believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world.
We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.
It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.
Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.
The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
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.
Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.
We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism-if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. ... You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.
You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.