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
committed to continue to hire great people, listen to customers, invest in future research and development, and create the next great generation of software.
Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put 3-man years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product and distribute for free? The fact is, no one besides us has invested a lot of money in hobby software.
Building a Digital Nervous System does not require some huge new investment in hardware and software. In fact, most companies have the key building blocks today.
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.
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.
Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever...
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world
Taxes are an investment in America.
The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning
(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future.
I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!
The report confirms what has been clear, and that is that the world isn't investing nearly enough in malaria R&D,