American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and writer best known for co-founding the software company Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
I'm a geek.
The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.
Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.
My wife thinks she's better than me at puzzles. I haven't given in on that one yet.
I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.
Newspaper readership is still growing in India.
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.
DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.
It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'