American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on.
3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.
When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.
Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.
It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear.
In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.
I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.