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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dreamworks_naveen" data-source="post: 2246230" data-attributes="member: 49393">1. "640K ought to be enough for anybody."  -- Bill Gates, 19812. Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."  --PopularMechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 19493. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."  --ThomasWatson, chairman of IBM, 19434. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and walked withthe best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad thatwon't last out the year."  --The editor in charge of business books forPrentice Hall, 19575. "But what ... is it good for?"  --Engineer at the Advanced ComputingSystems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.6. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."  --KenOlson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 19777. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered asa 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 payfor a message sent to nobody in particular?"  --David Sarnoff's associatesin response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.</blockquote>

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