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
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
Middle-income countries are the biggest users of GMOs. Places like Brazil.
Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.
I'm never fully satisfied with any Microsoft product.
You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.
We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.
The tablet is not mainstream. Reading off the screen is not mainstream.
The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day.
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny.