William Henry “Bill” Gates III is an American business magnate, entrepreneur, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, together with Paul Allen, he 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. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution.
Technology Is Just A Tool. In Terms Of Getting The Kids Working Together And Motivating Them, The Teacher Is The Most Important.
Discrimination Has A Lot Of Layers That Make It Tough For Minorities To Get A Leg Up.
I Have Seen Firsthand That Agricultural Science Has Enormous Potential To Increase The Yields Of Small Farmers And Lift Them Out Of Hunger And Poverty.
Innovations That Are Guided By Smallholder Farmers, Adapted To Local Circumstances, And Sustainable For The Economy And Environment Will Be Necessary To Ensure Food Security In The Future.
In Inner-city, Low-income Communities Of Color, There's Such A High Correlation In Terms Of Educational Quality And Success.
Although I Don't Have A Prescription For What Others Should Do, I Know I Have Been Very Fortunate And Feel A Responsibility To Give Back To Society In A Very Significant Way.
In American Math Classes, We Teach A Lot Of Concepts Poorly Over Many Years. In The Asian Systems They Teach You Very Few Concepts Very Well Over A Few Years.
Oh, I Think There Are A Lot Of People Who Would Be Buying And Selling Online Today That Go Up There And They Get The Information, But Then When It Comes Time To Type In Their Credit Card They Think Twice Because They're Not Sure About How That Might Get Out And What That Might Mean For Them.
I Think The Thing We See Is That As People Are Using Video Games More, They Tend To Watch Passive Tv A Bit Less. And So Using The Pc For The Internet, Playing Video Games, Is Starting To Cut Into The Rather Unbelievable Amount Of Time People Spend Watching Tv.
I Spend A Lot Of Time Reading.
You Know Capitalism Is This Wonderful Thing That Motivates People, It Causes Wonderful Inventions To Be Done. But In This Area Of Diseases Of The World At Large, It's Really Let Us Down.
Well Private Money Can Take Risks In A Way That Government Money Often Isn't Willing To.
You May Have Heard Of Black Friday And Cyber Monday. There's Another Day You Might Want To Know About: Giving Tuesday. The Idea Is Pretty Straightforward. On The Tuesday After Thanksgiving, Shoppers Take A Break From Their Gift-buying And Donate What They Can To Charity.
Well I Think Any Author Or Musician Is Anxious To Have Legitimate Sales Of Their Products, Partly So They're Rewarded For Their Success, Partly So They Can Go On And Do New Things.
The Aids Is A Disease That Is Hard To Talk About.
The World Has Been Very Careful To Pick Very Few Diseases For Eradication, Because It Is Very Tough.
We Should All Grow Our Own Food And Do Our Own Waste Processing, We Really Should.
The General Idea Of The Rich Helping The Poor, I Think, Is Important.
Rich Countries Can Afford To Overpay For Things.
Today, We're Very Dependent On Cheap Energy. We Just Take It For Granted - All The Things You Have In The House, The Way Industry Works.
If You're Using First-class Land For Biofuels, Then You're Competing With The Growing Of Food. And So You're Actually Spiking Food Prices By Moving Energy Production Into Agriculture.
The Trouble With Energy Farming Is That The Energy Isn't Always Where You Want To Use It, And It Isn't Always When You Want To Use It.
Energy Innovation Is Not A Nationalistic Game.
Historically, Privacy Was Almost Implicit, Because It Was Hard To Find And Gather Information. But In The Digital World, Whether It's Digital Cameras Or Satellites Or Just What You Click On, We Need To Have More Explicit Rules - Not Just For Governments But For Private Companies.
Maintaining A Consistent Platform Also Helps Improve Product Support - A Significant Problem In The Software Industry.
The Only Thing I Understand Deeply, Because In My Teens I Was Thinking About It, And Every Year Of My Life, Is Software. So I'll Never Be Hands-on On Anything Except Software.
I'm Going To Save My Public Voice Largely For The Issues Where I Have Some Depth.
Well, I Don't Think There's Any Need For People To Focus On My Career.
Me And My Dad Are The Biggest Promoters Of An Estate Tax In The Us. It's Not A Popular Position.
Me And My Dad Are The Biggest Promoters Of An Estate Tax In The Us. It's Not A Popular Position.
I'm A Geek.
Internet Tv And The Move To The Digital Approach Is Quite Revolutionary. Tv Has Historically Has Been A Broadcast Medium With Everybody Picking From A Very Finite Number Of Channels.
A First-generation Fortune Is The Most Likely To Be Given Away, But Once A Fortune Is Inherited It's Less Likely That A Very High Percentage Will Go Back To Society.
I Know There's A Farmer Out There Somewhere Who Never Wants A Pc And That's Fine With Me.
Software Is A Great Combination Between Artistry And Engineering.
Innovation Is A Good Thing. The Human Condition - Put Aside Bioterrorism And A Few Footnotes - Is Improving Because Of Innovation.
The World Is Not Flat, And Pcs Are Not, In The Hierarchy Of Human Needs, In The First Five Rungs.
I Was A Kind Of Hyper-intense Person In My Twenties And Very Impatient.
Eradications Are Special. Zero Is A Magic Number. You Either Do What It Takes To Get To Zero And You're Glad You Did It; Or You Get Close, Give Up And It Goes Back To Where It Was Before, In Which Case You Wasted All That Credibility, Activity, Money That Could Have Been Applied To Other Things.
There Are More People Dying Of Malaria Than Any Specific Cancer.
Well, No One Gives Aid To Zimbabwe Through The Mugabe Government.
Countries Which Receive Aid Do Graduate. Within A Generation, Korea Went From Being A Big Recipient To Being A Big Aid Donor. China Used To Get Quite A Bit Of Aid; Now It's Aid-neutral.
With Windows 8, Microsoft Is Trying To Gain Market Share In What Has Been Dominated By The Ipad-type Device. But A Lot Of Those Users Are Frustrated. They Can't Type. They Can't Create Documents.
I'm Certainly Well Taken Care Of In Terms Of Food And Clothes.
Money Has No Utility To Me Beyond A Certain Point.
Polio's Pretty Special Because Once You Get An Eradication, You No Longer Have To Spend Money On It; It's Just There As A Gift For The Rest Of Time.
If You Can't Make It Good, At Least Make It Look Good.
When I Was In My 40s, Microsoft Was My Primary Activity.
It's Hard To Improve Public Education - That's Clear.
We All Know That There Are These Exemplars Who Can Take The Toughest Students, And They'll Teach Them Two-and-a-half Years Of Math In A Single Year.