COMPUTER QUOTATIONS

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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
   - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
   - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"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, 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 DEC, 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
   - Bill Gates, 1981 apocryphal

"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 Union internal memo, 1876

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