“Starting out behind is sometimes an advantage.”
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.
“Starting out behind is sometimes an advantage. It lets those who adopt late skip steps, and avoid the mistakes of the trailblazers.”
Bill Gates
“Few skills are more important than knowing how to distinguish what’s true from what’s false.”
— Bill Gates Primary source“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”
— 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“It is never hopeless. But sometimes I cannot hope. I try always to hope but sometimes I cannot.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“For those who live with God there is no last meeting.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“When the wine enters, out goes the truth.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”
— Tony Hoare Secondary source