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Smart Aleck remarks and dumb stares are still free....
"I feel that there is a world market for as many as five computers" Thomas Watson, IBM corp. - 1943
"Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum
tubes
and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future by the year 2000, may
have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons"
Popular Mechanics, March 1949
"There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home" Ken Olson, DEC, 1977
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981
..."I took the initiative in creating the Internet"...
Vice President Al Gore, 1999 - I wonder what we were using
from 1970 until 1999... :-)
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
Updated October 31, 2008