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
One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equityWe are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world.
At every juncture, advanced tools have been the key to a new wave of applications, and each wave of applications has been key to driving computing to the next level.
Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Now help me spread the word about Giving Tuesday!
The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.
Anything you do, you better enjoy it for its value. Because people are going to second-guess everything you do.
Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?
In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.
A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.
The world needs banking but it does not need banks.
Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card.