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 message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.
They're doing God's work in a pretty incredible way, ... They have provided the lion's share of the personnel.
They're one of our newest competitors. It's a great thing for us to have a broad range of competitors,
There's a vacuum there that we are benefiting from immensely.
There's been a lot of misinformation put out by the competitors, ... We will always stand for the PC industry -- high volume, low prices, rapid innovation. People who stand against the PC industry, I don't think they'll be successful.
At any point in our history, we've had competitors who were better at doing something.
As we step up malaria research, it's also critically important to save lives today with existing tools. Bed nets cost just a few dollars each, but only a small fraction of African children sleep under one.
As we look ahead to the appeals process, innovation will continue to be the No. 1 priority at Microsoft.
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
The U.S. couldn't even get rid of Saddam Hussein. And we all know that the EU is just a passing fad. They'll be killing each other again in less than a year. I'm sick to death of all these fascist lawsuits.
They are not required to use Windows or Office.
you'd have to look out three years into the future.
You could say this is a bet-the-company kind of thing,
The frontiers were sort of wide open. It was that sense of excitement that we really wanted to spark in everybody else wherever we went.