Occupation: Investor Birth: October 28, 1955
Newspaper readership is still growing in India..
Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's….
There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with th….
Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10 percent to business thinking. Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card..
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics..
Lectures should go from being like the family singing around the piano to high-quality concerts..
Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM..
Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while bu….
If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just w….
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming w….
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue ….
In some ways, if you make mistakes with your own money, you don't feel as bad about it as if it was someone else's..
When you write a piece of software you assume a certain type of hardware. If you assume hardware that's too powerful then you can't sell many copies ….
I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on….
Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won….
R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our e….
The future of Windows is to let the computer see, listen and even learn..
It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to….
I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that..
There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down..
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather ….