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 think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.
Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.
Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.
While Microsoft does not share all of Sun's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.
This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.
We need in this industry small software companies with two or five people that are very, very specialized, ... We also need many giants.
Well, Larry predicted that the software industry would consolidate, and through billions of dollars in his spending, he's managed to make his prediction come true,
Finding information is either a software question or a question of how much information is online.
Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.
There is this thing called the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), which we disagree with... nobody can ever improve the software.
Software is the magic thing whose importance only goes up over time.
If something is expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?
It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not.
There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written.