# Quote — Bill Gates, The Road Ahead

> Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

- Author: [Bill Gates](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates.md)
- Book: [The Road Ahead](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/the-road-ahead.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#The_Road_Ahead_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/the-road-ahead/success-is-a-lousy

## More from this book

> 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,"

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/the-road-ahead/one-of-the.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [justice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/justice.md)

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

p. 265 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/bill-gates/the-road-ahead/the-obvious-mathematical.md)

Topics: [science](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/science.md)