Famous Computer Quotes

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Famous Computer Quotes
'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers'
- Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943

'32 bits ought to be enough address space'
- Vint Cerf, 1977
(While IPv4 has survived for 30 years, IPv6 is just around the corner)

'640K should be enough for anybody'
- Bill Gates, 1981

In this world there are 10* types of people, those that know binary and those who don't. * (one zero)

 

[Jacob Mathai]

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

 

[Jacob Mathai]

Computer Predictions
'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers'

* Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

'While a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 10000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers of the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1.5 tons.'

* Popular mechanics, 1949

'I have travelled 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'

* 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, commenting on the microchip, 1968

'There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in the home'

* Ken Olson, Present, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

'640K should be enough for anybody'

* Bill Gates, 1981

 

[The_Doc_Man]

"Artificial intelligence cannot cope with natural stupidity."

- anonymous

 

[statsman]

To err is human...to really screw up you need a computer.

Unknown

 

[Jacob Mathai]

I do not have the exact quote or the picture.

Back in the 1970s (when I worked for IBM), many programmers had a picture on the wall of a human skeleton touching an IBM 3270 terminal (display monitor). Beneath the picture was a quote "Has the system responded yet?"

If any one has the picture, please post it.