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
The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
Bitcoin is a technological tour de force
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things.
When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it.
Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever told me was that I was 'satisfactory,' I would have no hope of ever getting better.
I believe that every life is valuable. That we can make things better. That innovation is the key to a bright future. That we're just getting started.
Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not.
Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved.
It's the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history.