[GreenKeys] Wrong! --- read these---

[Don Robert House]

Excellent quotations passed on by Bill Flood...

"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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"There is no real need for sales people. Customers will be attracted 
to good products without assistance."
- Ken Olson, addressing a convention of DEC sales people
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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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"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 gotten through college yet.'"
- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and 
HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
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"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, 1981
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