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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

“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.

“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 HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
- Bill Gates, 1981

“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.”
-Louis Gerstner

“But what … is it good for?”
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968,
commenting on the  microchip.

and my favorite:

“Always program as if the person who will be maintaining your program is a violent psychopath that knows where you live.”
- Martin Golding