“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
“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“The development of AI is as fundamental as the creation of the microprocessor, the personal computer, the Internet, and the mobile phone. It will change the way people work, learn, travel, get health care, and communicate with each other.”
— 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“A new-born government must dazzle.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte Disputed“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
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