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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Beware the Pundit
Before your take the pundits (in any field) too seriously, consider these predictions:
- "While a calculator on the ENIAC (the first electronic computer) is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, March 1949 - "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home."
Ken Olsen, the founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (one of the early giants of the computer industry) - "640 K ought to be enough for anybody."
William Gates III (referring to the amount of memory in computers - a limit imposed by the software that made billiions of dollars for Bill Gates'
Note: nowadays, 2,000,000 K is a common amount of memory in computers; 4,000,000 K is not unusual. - "I think there is a world market for about five computers."
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.(Head of IBM)
The people quoted in the last 3 statements deny having said what they said. Where is You Tube when you really need it?
- "This manual says what our product actually does, no matter what the salesman may have told you it does."
In a user's manual for graphic board (computer component), 1985 - "Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools."
Gene Brown - "People are not stupid. The problem is that computers are much too easy to get."
me - "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
Andy Rooney - "Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."
Doug Larson - "Do not fold, mutilate, or spindle."
Punch Card - "Garbage in, garbage out."
Not a quote, just a basic truth evident all around us - "That’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
Every programmer who had to explain the mistakes he made when coding a program - "To err is human. To really foul up, it takes a computer."
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