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
It's really a tragedy that the world has done so little to stop this disease that kills 2000 African children every day.
Anyone here hear any good lawyer jokes lately?
at this point, we're not seeing anything that would be cause for appeal.
The last thing you want to do for a shared use computer is have it be something without a disk ... and with a tiny little screen.
The message that personal computers can do neat things, that software is great stuff, that there's an exciting opportunity here and Microsoft is involved in it, that's a worthwhile message for Microsoft to get out.
I hear they're coming out with a robot that will cook hamburgers, too. Let's spread that rumor - there's nothing they can't do.
I heard they drove a car over this thing..
If I were a guy who just wanted to win, I would have already moved on to another arena. If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago
I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.
In a sense this is the end of an era. Microsoft and the original PC rose to prominence based on the MS-DOS product. And even as Windows came along, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, underneath MS-DOS was running there. Windows simply sat on top of MS-DOS. Well, so today it really is actually the end of the MS-DOS era. It's also, we would say, the end of the Windows 95 era.
I'm not, you know, particularly good at this. Maybe I'll never be good at it. But to walk around to each patient and ask, you know, what is your problem? And be respectful of, you know, their desire for privacy. But I think it is very important. If people got out like that, you know these problems would get addressed.
I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.
If there's one cultural quality we have, it's that we always see ourselves as an underdog.
If there's any part of the economy that's delivered for all the citizens, it's got to be the work that we and our partners in our industry have done,