Bill Gates on the need for computer memory (1981)

640K ought to be enough for anybody. 

~ Bill Gates, 1981

IBM engineer questioning the use of the microchip (1968)

But what is it good for?"

~ Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

Prentice Hall: "Data processing is a fad"

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

Thomas Watson on the future of computing (1943)

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

~ Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Popular Mechanics on the relentless march of science in computing (1949)

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

~ Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949