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Famous Last Words
- Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march...
- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM,...
- 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...
- 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...
- 640k ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates,...
- This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a means of communication
The device is inherently
of no value to us." --Western...
- The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value
Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular...
- The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn
better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible
A Yale University
management professor in response...
- Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner
Warner
Brothers, 1927...
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