American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Being able to see an activity log of where a kid has been going on the Internet is a good thing.
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.
Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have.
It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down.
People want to watch whatever video they want to watch whenever they want to watch. If you provision your Internet infrastructure adequately, you can do that.
It's possible - you can never know - that the universe exists only for me. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
China adopted a capitalist system in the 1980s, and they went from a 60% poverty rate to 10%.