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Six memorable quotes about technology Sometimes they’re mistaken. Other times they’re misguided. And sometimes, they’re just plain wrong. From off-target predictions about the future of technology to good old- fashioned Microsoft-bashing, we bring you six memorable quotes about technology that, for different reasons, Image courtesy of Tina Phillips/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Six memorable quotes about technology

Sometimes they’re mistaken. Other

times they’re misguided. And

sometimes, they’re just plain wrong.

From off-target predictions about the

future of technology to good old-

fashioned Microsoft-bashing, we

bring you six memorable quotes

about technology that, for different

reasons, can’t help but make you

smile.

By Jeff Jedras

Image courtesy of Tina Phillips/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net

“The internet is a great way to get on

the net.”

-- Former U.S. Republican presidential

nominee Bob Dole

Also, as Homer Simpson once

observed, they have the Internet on

computers now. Who knows what

they’ll think of next?

Bob Dole

“640K ought to be enough for

anybody.”

-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates

If he had known in 1981 how many

different covers of Call Me Maybe

would be available in iTunes, clearly

he would never have made this

remark.

Bill Gates, Quote 1

“If GM had kept up with technology

like the computer industry has, we

would all be driving $25 cars that got

1000 MPG”

-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates

Bill is absolutely correct.

Of course our cards would also crash

far more frequently, and the term

“blue screen of death” would take on

a whole new, and rather unfortunate,

meaning.

Bill Gates, Quote Two

“The only thing that I'd rather own than

Windows is English, because then I

could charge you two hundred and

forty-nine dollars for the right to speak

it. “

-- Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott

McNealy

That would only work if you get every

manufacturer to pre-load the latest

revision of English at birth. Myself, I’d

wait for the first service pack. Also,

consider a dual-boot.

Scott McNealy

“I think there is a world market for

maybe five computers.”

-- Former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson

Watson shared this observation in 1943.

And any day now, this alleged post-PC

era will surely begin, right?

Thomas Watson

“Never trust a computer you can't

throw out a window.”

- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak

Now that’s a post-PC era I can get

behind. And possibly why the

iMac came with a handle. So

much more easy (and stylish) to

lob out a window than an ugly

beige box.

Steve Wozniak