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 don't think it's constructive to grow up having billions of dollars. . . . The idea that I will take a sizeable portion of my fortune and have them inherit that, I don't think that would be to society's benefit or to their benefit. I've spoken out about this before . . . my philosophy of giving back my wealth to society.
If you are going from one of your own PCs to one of your other PCs, we will in the future make that possible. But we don't allow the distribution that is beyond the rights that you have.
If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company.
If those children were in rich countries, we would have headlines, we'd take action. We wouldn't rest until every child was protected,
If those are preserved, it'd be nice if a settlement could be reached,
There is no area where privacy is more important than health records.
The people on (the Xbox) team can all kill me within about 60 seconds on Halo, so I try and avoid them.
We're only halfway to what we think we can achieve,
But the government made some non-negotiable demands that were very surprising to us,
Building a Digital Nervous System does not require some huge new investment in hardware and software. In fact, most companies have the key building blocks today.
But as long as there is year-by-year progress, it holds a great opportunity for us in terms of scale, which helps us do more, and it's a great place where we have people working for us.
Because we now have a research group, and we are out there working with lots of universities and are able to continue to hire great people, I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.
China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it's not an 'us versus them,' it's an 'us and them' type scenario.
Imagine if they wouldn't let you put HTML in your application,