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
Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now.
The world at large is less inequitable today than at any time in history. Number of people in abject poverty, as a percentage, is at all-time low.
In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
In five years the cost of computation will really be effectively decreased. We'll be able to put on somebody's desk, for an incredibly low cost, a processor with far more capability than you could ever take advantage of.
It may seem strange to have somebody who works at the very lowest end of computing here addressing the supercomputing audience,
There's been a lot of misinformation put out by the competitors, ... We will always stand for the PC industry -- high volume, low prices, rapid innovation. People who stand against the PC industry, I don't think they'll be successful.
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.
The phone is very different. The idea of a meeting is very different.
We lusted after some of those things (Palm) did well, and we wanted to combine it with the things we did well. It's wonderful to see those things come together.
We lusted after some of the things (Palm) did well and wanted to combine them with some of the things that we did well.
With our foundation, with others ... we're getting the brightest scientists to come and work on these problems,
The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.