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
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
We're encouraged by China's efforts to strengthen intellectual property protection, which will provide the foundation for continued expansion of the IT industry in China. We look forward to working with the Chinese government and partner companies in China to create new opportunities for growth.
I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement..access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.
The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many engineers as we are, and that's just happened over the last 20 years.
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?
I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
Jobs in software are really fun jobs. These are not jobs about just closing the door and writing a lot of code.
It is a great pleasure for me to announce that Steve Ballmer -- my long-term partner in building Microsoft and a great business leader -- is being named CEO,
We are experiencing the early days of a revolution...that will be long-lived and widespread.
Today is a great day for PC users and a great day for the PC industry,
What will be most fun for me is to see how your generation comes in and takes software to a whole new level.
had extremely radical views and weren't interested in seeing a settlement.
Hardware is a small part of the cost.
Happy Valentine's Day. My other invitation was to go quail hunting with Dick Cheney.