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The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead

The Road Ahead is a book written by Bill Gates, co-founder and then-CEO of the Microsoft software company, together with Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and journalist Peter Rinearson. Published in November 1995, then substantially revised about a year later, The Road Ahead summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global information superhighway.


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“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.

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“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

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