American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
I'm an investor in a number of biotech companies, partly because of my incredible enthusiasm for the great innovations they will bring.
Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated.
I'm not big on to-do lists. Instead, I use e-mail and desktop folders and my online calendar. So when I walk up to my desk, I can focus on the e-mails I've flagged and check the folders that are monitoring particular projects and particular blogs.
No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'
India has over 20 percent of the kids born in the world. And they move around a lot.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy at a reasonable price.
I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.