Bill Gates Quotes
I believe innovation is the most powerful force for change in the world. People who are pessimistic about the future tend to extrapolate from the present in a straight line. But innovation fundamentally shifts the trajectory of development.
Gates, Bill, and Melinda Gates. "2014 Annual Letter." Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014.
He traveled to Japan and stayed for the rest of his life and became a very respected Japanese writer. Japanese history had very periods of stability yet the Japanese progressed from a backward, insular, island nation to a highly technological, industrial, superpower in the presence of all the chaos and instability of government and society. The period after the Japanese defeat in the Second World War, has been the longest period of tranquility and stability in the history of Japan.
William Henry Gates III is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. He is considered one of the best known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. Gates is also co-founder and chairman of TerraPower that is developing next generation traveling-wave reactor nuclear power plants, in an effort to tackle climate change.