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Gates pressed on, suggesting that a computer could help Buffett keep track of his stock portfolio. But Buffett, whose investment portfolio consisted solely of Berkshire Hathaway, simply responded ...
Business @ the Speed of Thought [1] is a book written by Bill Gates and Collins Hemingway in 1999. It discusses how business and technology are integrated, and explains how digital infrastructures and information networks can help someone get an edge on the competition.
Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a commitment by all three to donate at least half of their wealth, over the course of time, to charity.
"An Open Letter to Hobbyists" is a 1976 open letter written by Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, to early personal computer hobbyists, in which Gates expresses dismay at the rampant software piracy taking place in the hobbyist community, particularly with regard to his company's software.
Gates has previously spoken about how he believes the AI revolution will lead to everyone having their own “white-collar” personal assistants—and he isn’t the only technologist to have ...
"Compared to a computer, our brains operate at a snail’s pace: An electrical signal in the brain moves at 1/100,000th the speed of the signal in a silicon chip!" Gates explained.
The hardback edition saw the Internet as one of the "important precursors of the information highway...suggestive of [its] future" (p. 89); [3] he noted that the "popularity of the Internet is the most important single development in the world of computing since the IBM PC was introduced in 1981" [3] (p.
Gates is worth $140 billion, making him the fourth-richest person on Earth, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index. But he likely would still be the world’s richest person if he hadn’t ...