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
Although (the Y2K problem) is a terrible distraction and there will be some disruption, there has been a little bit of a windfall for some participants in the IT industry, ... below the middle of the panic (levels) some people have suggested.
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.
There has never been any discussion about us (buying) any part of a phone company, British Telecom or any other phone company,
When Dr. Lee was an employee at Microsoft, I thought of him as trustworthy, ... There were a lot of things around his leaving Microsoft that I wouldn't have expected.
We're trying to drive (the technology) to critical mass.
We think we'll revolutionize how people do things in the workplace by bringing streaming media and Microsoft Office together in a combined vision,
With breakthroughs that will come over the next two decades, yes, we can make malaria in the whole world like it is in the United States today, something that we just don't have to worry about,
In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.
If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.