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
Software is definitely engineering. It's different in that we take on novel tasks every time. It's not like building a certain bridge that is virtually identical to some previous bridge or some previous building.
Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].
Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business.
I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
Microsoft is involved in setting some fairly key standards and people are afraid of it because they think, Geez, they are quite capable. It's daunting, I suppose.
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
We need to start thinking about the Future of Food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
The Wright Brothers created the single greatest cultural force since the invention of writing. The airplane became the first World Wide Web, bringing people, languages, ideas, and values together.
The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.
We're only at the beginning of what we have to do here.
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
Being maniacal about something is very helpful.
If I only had two dollars left I would spend one dollar on PR.