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
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.
We will never make a 32-bit operating system.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.
People everywhere love Windows.
Don’t tax my income, tax my consumption.