| Miscellaneous
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Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 |
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Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons. |
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| Thomas
Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 |
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think there is a world market for maybe five computers. |
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| The
editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 |
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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. |
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| Engineer
at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the
microchip. |
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what ... is it good for? |
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| Bill
Gates, 1981 |
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| 640K
ought to be enough for anybody. |
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| Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 |
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is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. |
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| Steve
Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's
personal computer. |
| "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.'" |
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both, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went on to found Apple Computers Inc.
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| Western
Union internal memo, 1876. |
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telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as
a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. |
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| David
Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio
in the 1920s. |
| "The
wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for
a message sent to nobody in particular?" |
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| A
Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's* paper
proposing reliable overnight delivery service. |
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concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than
a 'C,' the idea must be feasible. |
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Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp. |
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