Re: [NTLK] OT: Laurent Daudelin's "definitions"

From: R Pickett (emerson_at_hayseed.net)
Date: Wed Nov 28 2001 - 22:32:44 EST


On Wed, 2001-11-28 at 19:24, BK wrote:
> In another sig, I have seen Ken Olson's (DEC founder) famous words of
> 1978 or so "There is no reason why anybody would want to have a computer
> in their home".

My favorite along those lines continues to be:

"I forsee a worldwide market for maybe five computers"
                -- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

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