The Road Ahead, a book written by Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold and Peter Rinearson and published in November 1995, summarized the implications of the personal computing revolution and described a future profoundly changed by the arrival of a global interactive network. The hardback edition, which was top of the New York Times bestseller list for seven weeks in late 1995 and early 1996, did not foresee that the then-nascent Internet would evolve into the interactive network that Gates would later predict. Indeed, Microsoft intended that MSN would become the dominant network. After the book was written, but before it hit bookstores, Gates recognized that the Internet was gaining the critical mass needed to drive it to dominance, and on December 7, 1995 — just weeks after the release of the book — he redirected Microsoft to become an Internet-focused company. Then he and coauthor Rinearson spent several months revising the book, making it 20,000 words longer and focused on the Internet. The revised edition was published in October 1996 as a trade paperback.[1] Both editions came with a CD-ROM that contained the text of the book and supplemental information. The hardback was published by Viking, and the paperback by Penguin, an affiliate of Viking. Numerous publishers around the world produced translated versions of the book, which was particularly popular among university students in China. One of Gates' coauthors, Nathan Myhrvold, was a computer scientist and Microsoft vice president who for a time oversaw Microsoft's research efforts and later co-founded Intellectual Ventures, an intellectual property company. The other co-author, Peter Rinearson, was a Pulitzer Prize winner and entrepreneur who would later found and sell an Internet company and become a Microsoft vice president.
Quotes by Bill Gates :-
- 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
- As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
- Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
- I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
- If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.
- If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.
- In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
- Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
- It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.
- Life is not fair; get used to it.
- People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
- The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
- This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.
- We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.
- Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
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