“I
think there’s a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943.
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates 1981
“One
machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work
of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Green Hubbard
“Imagine
a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot,
and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.”
Peter Cochrane
"It
is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
Albert Einstein
"Our scientific
power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided
men."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"You see,
wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in
New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this?
And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
Albert Einstein (when asked to describe radio)