Stupid Words from Great People!

1. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981.

2. Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular
Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

3. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

4. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and walked
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

5. "But what ... Is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing
Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

6. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977.

7. "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.

8. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David
Sarnoff's associates
In response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.