Computers
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science,1949
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall Publishing,1957
"But what ... is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981
"Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
(Or was that "earning"?)
- Bill Gates
"Every moment dies a man - every moment one is born."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
An interfering busybody wrote to the poet, explaining that due to the increase in the numbers of humankind, the line should be rewritten as :
"Every moment dies a man - every moment one and one-sixteenth is born."
( Charles Babbage )
And finally...
General Motors comments on Microsoft