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To: NickSE who wrote (281)9/12/1998 6:37:00 PM
From: flickerful  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 13018
 
futurists?

"I see no reason anybody could use more than 640k of conventional
memory."
- Bill Gates

"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you
that data processings 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.