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Putting Things in Perspective: Selective Quotes

Putting Things in Perspective: Selective Quotes. “640K ought to be enough for anyone.” Bill Gates, 1981. “There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, President, Chair and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.

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Putting Things in Perspective: Selective Quotes

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  1. Putting Things in Perspective: Selective Quotes

  2. “640K ought to be enough for anyone.” Bill Gates, 1981

  3. “There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, President, Chair and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

  4. “The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?” Advice to David Sarnoff in the 1920’s

  5. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” Thomas Watson, Chairman, IBM, 1943

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

  7. “But what is it good for?” Comment on the microchip from IBM Advanced Computing Systems Division, 1968

  8. Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace Barlow, 1996

  9. Those of us in higher education have a small amount of time to stop and think. What is the purpose of higher education?  How shall we continue to accomplish it? Not to answer these questions is to make a profound decision, by default, about our own prospects of the future." Arthur Levine, President of Teachers College, Columbia University

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