1899
| "Everything that can be invented has already been invented.", Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office
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1943
| "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.", Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM.
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1949
| "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.", Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science.
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1957
| "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." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall.
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1965
| Moore’s law published by Gordon Moore in the 35th Anniversary edition of Electronics magazine. Originally suggesting processor complexity every year the law was revised in 1975 to suggest a doubling in complexity every two years.
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1968
| "But what ... is it good for?" Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM commenting on the microchip.
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1977
| "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp..
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1980
| "DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any applications needing more." Microsoft on the development of DOS.
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1981
| "640k ought to be enough for anybody.", Bill Gates
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1992
| "Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need". Microsoft on the development of Windows NT
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