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Six memorable quotes about technology
Sometimes they’re mistaken. Other
times they’re misguided. And
sometimes, they’re just plain wrong.
From off-target predictions about the
future of technology to good old-
fashioned Microsoft-bashing, we
bring you six memorable quotes
about technology that, for different
reasons, can’t help but make you
smile.
By Jeff Jedras
Image courtesy of Tina Phillips/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net
“The internet is a great way to get on
the net.”
-- Former U.S. Republican presidential
nominee Bob Dole
Also, as Homer Simpson once
observed, they have the Internet on
computers now. Who knows what
they’ll think of next?
Bob Dole
“640K ought to be enough for
anybody.”
-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
If he had known in 1981 how many
different covers of Call Me Maybe
would be available in iTunes, clearly
he would never have made this
remark.
Bill Gates, Quote 1
“If GM had kept up with technology
like the computer industry has, we
would all be driving $25 cars that got
1000 MPG”
-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
Bill is absolutely correct.
Of course our cards would also crash
far more frequently, and the term
“blue screen of death” would take on
a whole new, and rather unfortunate,
meaning.
Bill Gates, Quote Two
“The only thing that I'd rather own than
Windows is English, because then I
could charge you two hundred and
forty-nine dollars for the right to speak
it. “
-- Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott
McNealy
That would only work if you get every
manufacturer to pre-load the latest
revision of English at birth. Myself, I’d
wait for the first service pack. Also,
consider a dual-boot.
Scott McNealy
“I think there is a world market for
maybe five computers.”
-- Former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson
Watson shared this observation in 1943.
And any day now, this alleged post-PC
era will surely begin, right?
Thomas Watson