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
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
If people want capital gains taxed more like the highest rate on income, that's a good discussion. Maybe that's the way to help close the deficit.
I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
K to 12 is partly about babysitting the kids so the parents can do other things.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts.
Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.
Certainly, the Windows share of servers is strong.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.