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 is certainly a dream come true in that we set a computer on every desk in every home and have the level of sales and profitability and employees we have today,
This will continue, ... They'll have a new version, we'll have a new version. It's a healthy competition that you expect in the computer software market.
We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.
We view this as a major milestone. Our original vision of a computer on every desk and every home, we've made amazing progress on that. This organization will allow us to do that faster.
It's very exciting to renew our commitment to the Macintosh. We're very pleased to be supporting Apple. We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry.
The average consumer lives in a world of more digital content and information than ever before. Windows Vista will make personal computing more useful, powerful, connected and fun, redefining both how we use computers in our homes and how we are entertained.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.
Anything that someone's interested in should be very, very easy to call up onto the screen. And in fact the computer over time will see what you're interested in and make that immediately available without your having to be give any commands at all.
In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.
I see little commercial potential for the Internet for at least ten years.
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as any of these previous advances.
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.