"I can remember asking my colleague; 'Why on earth would you need a one gigabyte computer?'"
-Dr. Jorge L. Rodriguez, particle physicist at Florida International University
"I remember when we had to go to the library and we would have to check the encyclopedia for everything"
-Lori Rodriguez, medical physicist
"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 DEC
"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple."
- Byte, December 1994
"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
- Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes