Occupation: Investor Birth: October 28, 1955
If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocr….
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confu….
Some people read off of their Palms and Pocket PCs, but the real immersible reading experience takes a full-screen device..
We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging..
Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids..
I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The….
... No one is less happy than I am with the performance of Microsoft stock! I've lost tens of billions of dollars this year - if you check, you'll se….
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system..
We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even….
There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect..
Kenya’s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf..
Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for fr….
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen..
If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say '….
I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make tha….
Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out..
Improving the health & productivity of the poorest is one of the best investments you can make in the future of the world.
From the day Microsoft was started, the only constraint to our growth has been attracting ah, more great programmers, very smart, committed, ah, peop….
Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be som….
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity..
The outside perception and inside perception of Microsoft are so different. The view of Microsoft inside Microsoft is always kind of an underdog thin….