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To: FREAKAZOID who wrote (223)	3/18/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: cicak	Respond to of 2380

Yikes !! eom

To: FREAKAZOID who wrote (223)	3/19/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Boyd Zander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2380

Freak, you might have seen this already but I thought a post of these quotes would be appropriate at HH, the place for not so intelligent discussions. I can't attest to their validity but they sure make me feel not so unintelligent anyways. BTW, My brother says that I am so unintelligent that I even have two pieces of paper which I hanging on my wall that confirm it. He say he'd like to know why I spent all that money on those diplomas. Oh well, at least one was reason to visit Southern Illinois University @ Carbondale for HH. Boyd "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 Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "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. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981