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
These mergers really don't change all that much over night. I didn't expect Oracle to buy Siebel, but they did,
The time is really now to change these things. That's true from the point of view of the relationship between the rich world and the poor world, it's true from a security point of view, an economic point of view. ... We're hopeful that the U.S. and other governments will see this as a turning point,
I expect over the next five years between us and others a heck of a job will get done. You'll be able to sit at your desk and do whatever it is you want to do with information or presenting data or interchanging data incredibly effectively. In other words, we will have changed the way people work.
Because we now have a research group, and we are out there working with lots of universities and are able to continue to hire great people, I'm very optimistic about our future. But, it is a future full of change and surprise.
It's a revolution in how we think about software, ... This is a big change for...every part of the ecosystem.
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.
Our vision, which has not changed since the day the company was founded.
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.
The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
XML facilitates a new world of experience and services, ... XML transforms productivity tools and databases and brings even more profound changes than HTML (the Internet's hypertext markup language) brought.
This is the first time in our 25-year history we've actually changed our vision statement,