“None of the protection systems that exist today, whether steering-wheel locks or steel vaults, are completely fail-safe. The best we can do is make it as difficult as possible for somebody to break a security device or get inside.”
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.
“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— 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“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“You had to trust the people you worked with completely or not at all, and you had to make decisions about the trusting.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.”
— Ayn Rand Disputed