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 working to create an individualized video feed to the screen you're watching.
Software is the place where the action is . . . it is an area that will continue to generate jobs. This is the golden age of software.
Software is redefining how people do things, ... We're nowhere near what we can do.
Software is providing power, but software has got to provide simplicity. And that's why our investment levels are going up, investments in the toughest problems: security, privacy, speech recognition, video recognition, and all of those things will fold into this platform.
Software empowerment can be used here as well.
Software, by being comprehensive, can save costs by avoiding add-on pieces of software. We can save money in terms of speed of development or by being able to run on less expensive hardware.
Older systems were secure because they were isolated. You can't layer on top of a system elements to make it secure; you get too much of a mismatch between the components. This design approach is absolutely critical--thinking these things through from the beginning and not bringing security in at the end is very important. This has been a big shift for Microsoft.
Millions of children have died from malaria because they were not protected by an insecticide-treated bed net or did not receive effective treatment, ... If we expand malaria control programs and invest what's needed in (research and development), we can stop this tragedy.
No one should underestimate the PC and what a valuable tool it has become,
No one should think that shareholder value would be preserved ... Microsoft would be greatly damaged by this kind of split.
more like us than anyone else we have ever competed with.
No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. - said in the early 1970s
No one will ever need more then 640K Memory
now that the government has decided to sue.