American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.
Most poor people live in the poorest countries.
Americans move more than 10 times over the course of a lifetime.
This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
Outlook 2003 did create the idea of search folders and the whole Longhorn philosophy. You can see it at work in search folders, where instead of having to drop things into individual folders, and things exist only in one folder, you create these search folders and you have the criteria for the search folder.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.
I don't think culture is something you can describe.