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To: HerbVic who wrote (32960)	3/28/2002 8:52:59 PM
From: jonkai	Respond to of 213182

how about these..... "The Internet? We are not interested in it" -- Bill Gates, 1993 * "Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority." -- Bill Gates, Jul, 1998 course this below is what he said when the anti-trust suit got a little heated,......... "We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993" Microsoft (27 Jul 1998, filing its first court responses to federal antitrust) jon.

To: HerbVic who wrote (32960)	3/29/2002 2:28:16 AM
From: Doren	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 Yeah, I knew it was an IBM guy but I couldn't remember exactly which one. "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. Actually, I believe that telephones were used only for emergency for about 10 years after they were introduced. That may not be exactly right but there is a story there something like that. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. Notepads are a totally interesting story. They didn't know what to do with the adhesive for some time after it was invented. Finally someone got the idea to make the little pads with the stuff. They tested it internally at 3M and discovered how addicting the little buggers are. I love stuff like that. Ever watch "Connections"? Great program on PBS that tracked the consequences and oddities of inventions. I actually have an inventention that works and could help an lot of people, and I've done the patent search. Everyone else who's tried it used the wrong approach. But don't want to spend my life traveling all over the place to sell it, and a patent can be quite expensive to get. Too bad. Sigh...