Quotes

"The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it."
- Anonymous

"At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
- Anonymous

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of throughly useless information."
- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
- Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple Computer