Computer Quotations "Everybody gets so much information al day long that they lose their common sense." --Gertrude Stein "Computers in the future may weight no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, 1949 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Charles H. Duell, commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "640K ought to be enough for anybody." --Bill Gates, 1981 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp, 1977 "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 "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody even things of complaining." --Anonymous "The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little." --Anonymous "The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord." --Anonymous "Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor." - Werner von Braun "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 Data data everywhere, and not a thought to think. --Anonymous "If a new computer or a software upgrade costs more than it's worth to you, don't buy it. After all, you don't have to upgrade. Software will run forever and computer hardware will work as long as it is kept in good repair." --Bill Gates (From Boise TV/BUG Bug Bytes, April 1997, via March '97 CEBUG Chronicle, East Brunswick, N.J; and other sources, via The Commodore Information Center web site (http://home.att.net/~rmestel/commodore.html) )