"People often overestimate what will happen in..." - Quote by Bill Gates
People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten.
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“When I walk into a grocery store and look at all the products you can choose, I say, "My God!" No king ever had anything like I have in my grocery store today.”
“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”
“Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.”
More on Future
“I'm taking pictures in my mind so i can save them for a rainy day.”
“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.”
“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.”
More on Planning
“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”
“It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for the most remotely successful and glorious life after all, when those spaces shall be built over and the idea of the founder be realized. I trust that every New England boy will begin by laying out a Keene Street through his head, eight rods wide.”
“If you don't think of the future, you won't have one.”