The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.
Bill GatesMe and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.
Bill GatesIf you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan.
Bill GatesThe interview process tests not what the applicant knows, but how well they can process tricky questions: If you wanted to figure out how many times on average you would have to flip the pages of the Manhattan phone book to find a specific name, how would you approach the problem? If a spider fell to the bottom of a 50-foot well, and each day climbed up 3 feet and slipped back 2, how many days would it take the spider to get out of the well? .
Bill Gates