BU Humor :-)
SOME
"UNFORTUNATE" FORECASTS!
Forecasting the future is
always difficult. Let’s keep that in mind as we read this online after responding to
our daily e-mail. <G>
"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."
Chairman of IBM, 1943
"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
"But what ... is it good
for?
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the
microchip.
"There is no reason
anyone would want a computer in their home."
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.
Last but not least....
"640K ought to be enough
for anybody."
Bill Gates, 1981 |
