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
I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.
I think you'll be amazed at the maturity we've gotten in the areas of hardware, battery life and software.
Jeez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type.
I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.
I see a lot of change, a lot of opportunity. We're not just talking about taking the advances of the past and suffusing them out into 100 percent of companies. We're talking about new waves, and new ways of thinking about the Internet, and that's going to keep all of our jobs very, very exciting.
I see if people are around, see what they put up on the walls. I want a little sense of what the feeling is, how lively, how much people personalize things. They put industry articles up on the walls, ones that are particularly rude to us or particul
Kids are really incredible, in terms of how much they dive into this and just take it as a given. They'll be the ones who really bring the web lifestyle into the mainstream.
Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.
It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.
I will continue to value his friendship and counsel in the years ahead,
There is a new phase now, a business mania around the Internet. We need a new generation of software tools that makes it easy to build this phase,
Our vision of what's important is exactly the same today, bringing together the best systems and the best software to empower people with rich information solutions.
Our vision connecting the world of PC's and TV's has long included advanced broadband capabilities to deliver video, data and interactivity to the home,
removes the cloud of breakup from the company, reverses the tying claim and says clearly that we did not attempt to monopolize the browser market.