Amusing Quotes

  
     
Below is a selection of quotes we have heard & read from various sources, we hope you find them as amusing as we have (bar the last one!). Should you know of any quotes you feel should be here, please e-mail it to us and we shall ensure all the best ones are added to this page.
  
   
PLEASE NOTE    
   
To the best of our knowledge all the below quotes are true, should you feel any are untrue, please contact us and we will ensure that the offending quote is removed.  
   
   

Computers will never need more than 64kb of RAM
(Bill Gates, 1981)
To run Microsoft's latest operating system (Windows XP), they recommend 128MB RAM - 128,000kb(approx.)

  
   
DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any applications needing more.
(Microsoft, 1980)
see above
  
   
Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need
(Microsoft, 1992)
on the development of Windows NT
 
   
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)
need we say anything?
  
   
There is no market for a Graphic User Interface (GUI) on a computer
(Xerox Senior Executive)
Windows is a GUI
  
   
The internet will never come to anything much
(Bill Gates)
  
   
But what ... is it good for?"
(Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968)
He was referring to the announcement that IBM had just created the first microchip
  
   

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons
(Popular Mechanics, 1949)
forecasting the relentless march of science,

 
   
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)
 
   
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
(Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)
 
   
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 H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
  
   
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
(Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)
  
   
A sufficiently high level of technology is indistinguishable from magic
(Arthur C. Clarke)
  
   
Our computers are OK, we do not need any support
(Are you sure you want your name to appear here?)
  
     
 

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