“People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.”
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“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“One today is worth two tomorrows.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“The years teach much which the days never know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source