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 have a very strong optimism, not just about our activities here, but about all the new developments taking place in the country.
I have 100 billion dollars... You realize I could spend 3 million dollars a day, every day, for the next 100 years? And that's if I don't make another dime. Tell you what-I'll buy your right arm for a million dollars. I give you a million bucks, and I get to sever your arm right here.
If we don't do this right, we won't get the result we need.
If we hope to maintain our economic and intellectual leadership in the U.S., we must renew this commitment. Unless there is reform, American competitiveness will suffer as other countries benefit from the international talent that U.S. employers cannot hire or retain.
If they want we will give them a sleeping bag, but there is something romantic about sleeping under the desk. They want to do it.
We are experiencing the early days of a revolution...that will be long-lived and widespread.
What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.
had extremely radical views and weren't interested in seeing a settlement.
Hardware is a small part of the cost.
Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about re-engineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity. About how quickly business itself will be transacted. About how information access will alter the lifestyle of consumers and their expectations of business . . . The successful companies of the next decade will be the ones that use digital tools to reinvent the way they work.
Getting the video sources into the PC has been a limiting factor. We're making progress making the video content easily accessible on the PC.
Getting minorities into those jobs we're not doing everything we should be to point out the opportunities,
Four or five years from now, you will wonder when somebody called up to get technical support how they just used the phone to try and describe what was going on with their PC.