Quotes from book

The Road Ahead

“Succes is a lousy teacher. It makes smart people think they can't lose.”

Bill Gates book The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead (1995)
Variant: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

“DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.”

Bill Gates book The Road Ahead

Source: The Road Ahead

“One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity…We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world”

Bill Gates book The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead (1995)

“The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.”

Bill Gates book The Road Ahead

Source: The Road Ahead (1995), p. 265 in hardcover edition, corrected in paperback