“I wrote my first program for a computer when I was thirteen years old.”
Bill Gates
The Road Ahead (Primary source)
The Road Ahead offers a sweeping forecast of how computing would reshape business, communication, and everyday life. Written as the web was just breaking into public consciousness, the book is best understood as a snapshot of how one of the era’s most powerful technologist saw the future; and, in places, didn’t see it.
“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“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
— Tony Hoare Secondary source“Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.”
— Jack London Primary source“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Our first line of defence is the enemy’s port.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source