Bill Gates is one of the most corrupt, evil, ...
people to have ever walked the face of this planet.
But I mean that in a good way.
Certainly now its proven by science: THERE IS NO REST FOR THE WICKED!
Two computer people discussing those old stories about Bill Gates's name adding up to 666 in ASCII:
"I hear that if you play the NT 4.0 CD backward, you get a satanic message."
"That's nothing. If you play it forward, it installs NT 4.0."
How appropriate that the "800" number for the Microsoft Systems Journal is 800-666-1084.
How Many Lit LEDs Can You See?
0-3: Me and my laptop
4-9: ...and I can see the wireless router
10-19: Too many gadgets
20-39: Slashdot at the NOC
40-99: Christmas all year 'round
100-499: The goggles, they do nothing!
500+: Tan, don't burn.
Relaxen und watchen das blinkenlichten.
"Who in their right mind would ever need more than 640k of ram!?"
- Bill Gates, 1981
"Any serious graphics applications still run better on Apple's
Macintosh platform..."
- Bill Gates, 1991
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked
with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a
fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"But what ... is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered
as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to
us."
- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would
pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment
in the radio in the 1920s.
"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.'"
- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and
H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer.
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