American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour.
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.
Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
I get more spam than anyone I know.
If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.
Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.
Google's done a super good job on search; Apple's done a great job on the IPod.
Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass - the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that - so they're kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.
There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw.
The nuclear approach I'm involved in is called a traveling-wave reactor, which uses waste uranium for fuel. There's a lot of things that have to go right for that dream to come true - many decades of building demo plants, proving the economics are right. But if it does, you could have cheaper energy with no CO2 emissions.