The best way to predict the future is to invent it. "
- Alan Kay
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented. "
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. "
- Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. "
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "
- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
-Marshall McCluhan
''Greenspan is not targeting the stock market,'' said
William C. Dudley,(Nov.7,1999) a chief economist at
Goldman, Sachs, ''but he is saying the market is an
increasingly important factor in setting interest rates. |
