The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
quote by Alan Kay
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Showing posts with label prediction. Show all posts
RAM
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Misattributed to Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981 :
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "
Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)
(Thanks for the correction, Paul Cobbaut)
Misattributed to Bill Gates of Microsoft, 1981 :
"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time... I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. "
Bloomberg Business News (19 January 1996); also WIRED (16 January 1997)
(Thanks for the correction, Paul Cobbaut)
Prediction
"I think there's a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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