“The world potential market for copying machines is 5,000 at most,” IBM executives to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959.
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home,” Ken Olsen, founder of mainframe-producer Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.
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“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer—640K ought to be enough for anybody,” Bill Gates, Microsoft, 1981.
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