The Year Ahead 2026: Optimism with footnotes (Primary source)
In this blog post, Bill Gates writes he remains optimistic about global progress thanks to innovation and AI, but warns funding cuts, inequality, climate change, and AI risks temper that hope and require urgent action.
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“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The type of person who comes up with the brilliant idea isn’t often the best person to turn it into a business.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Anytime we have new forms of communication it changes behavior whether it is political or business or any type of behavior.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Any company that stays the same will be passed by very quickly.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“Let every new year find you a better man.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary sourceArtificial Intelligence Society Technology