Humor: Computer Comments

[Rubaiyat <sva006@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

The Importance of Being Open Minded

     "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

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even
built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or
we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work
for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they
said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
   --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP
interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.

"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, 1981


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"Cover me. I'm changing lanes."
"When you do a good deed, get a receipt, in case heaven is like the IRS."
"Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?"
"We are born naked, wet and hungry.  Then things get worse."
"Very funny, Scotty.  Now beam down my clothes."
"Consciousness:  that annoying time between naps."
"We are Microsoft.  Resistance Is Futile.  You Will Be Assimilated."

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