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
Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.
If I had one dollar left, I'd spend it on PR
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
The outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
Even when I wrote Basic myself the day before I burned it into a computer I wasn't making design changes. I didn't have a testing team. I did all the testing myself. And there was no project methodology or schedule that, there was the notion of coming to a close means testing a lot at the end and making very few changes.
The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect.
Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.
Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
Often you just have to rely on your intuition.