“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
“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“In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did not completely trust anyone.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.”
— Winston Churchill Primary source“For those who live with God there is no last meeting.”
— Helen Keller Primary source“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.”
— Bill Gates Primary source