Quotes
- "Anyone expecting an autobiography or a treatise on what it's like to have been as lucky as I have been will be disappointed." (p. xiii)
- "The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." (p. 265)
- "Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things." (p. 2)
- "We’ll find ourselves in a new world of low-friction, low-overhead capitalism, in which market information will be plentiful and transaction costs low. It will be a shopper’s heaven" (Gates, 1996: 181).
- "Corporations will redesign their nervous systems to rely on the networks that reach every member of the organization and beyond into the world of suppliers, consultants and customers." (Gates, 1996: 153)
Read more about this topic: The Road Ahead (Bill Gates book)
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