Tech Quotes

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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."

-- Bill Gates, 1981 
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. 
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"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. 
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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

--Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
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"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." 

--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 
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"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
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"But what ... is it good for?"

--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the microchip. 
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"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." 

--Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
Corp., 1977 
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"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. 
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"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. 
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"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."

--Admiral William Leahy, Manhattan Project, 1943 
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"It's a great invention but who would want to use it anyway?"

--President Rutherford B. Hayes after a demonstration of Bell's
telephone
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"The present generation will not [fly], and no practical engineer
would devote himself to the problem now."

--Worby Beaumont, engineer, responding to a newspaperman who had asked
if man would fly in the next century, January 1, 1900 
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"Man will not fly for fifty years."

--Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville, 1901 
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"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." 

--R.S. Lambert, Canadian Radio Broadcaster, 1936. 
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