Occupation: Investor Birth: October 28, 1955
The key for us, number one, has always been hiring very smart people..
As you get to the end of the project you want to run all the tests cases against one version and make sure that you know that that version passed eve….
Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out,….
I set a rule that people weren't allowed to send good news unless they sent around an equal amount of bad news. We had to get a balanced picture. In ….
Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs..
In the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you're going to be 20 years from now is how wel….
I do think this next century, hopefully, will be about a more global view. Where you don't just think, 'Yes, my country is doing well,' but you think….
What we're really after is simply that people acquire a legal license for Windows for each computer they own before they move on to Linux or Sun Sola….
I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity..
I feel certain that the personal computer is as revolutionary in terms of the way it will change the way we work, learn, and entertain ourselves as a….
On my desk I have three screens, synchronized to form a single desktop. I can drag items from one screen to the next. Once you have that large displa….
In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the….
If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all – including the poorest..
The trick generally is to break programs into pieces and have those pieces be individually testable and so then when you move on to the other pieces ….
In poor countries, we still need better ways to measure the effectiveness of the many government workers providing health services. They are the cruc….
The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to ….
The inventory, the value of my company, walks out the door every evening..
Often you just have to rely on your intuition..
Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems ….
What destroys more self-confidence than any other educational thing in America is being assigned to some remedial math when you get into some college….
These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal….