“Of all the things humans have ever created, AI will change society the most.”
Bill Gates
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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“Of all the things humans have ever created, AI will change society the most. It will help solve many of our current problems while also bringing new challenges very different from past innovations.”
Bill Gates
“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“The axiom that you learn more from your failures than your successes is trite but absolutely true.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Most problems in real life are poorly understood, in that the real problem is often something different from what it is orginally thought to be.”
— Tony Hoare Primary source“A new-born government must dazzle.”
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