"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

"I feel that there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics, 1949

"But what...is it good for?"
- IBM Advanced Computing Systems Division Engineer, commenting on the microchip, 1968

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of DEC, 1977

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1981

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
- Al Gore, describing his legislation to interconnect five supercomputer centers, 1986

"I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1987

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones."
- Linus Torvalds, Father of Linux, 1991

"We will never make a 32-bit operating system."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft, 1993

"I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
- Robert Metcalfe, Founder of 3COM, 1995

"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm affraid I can't do that."
- HAL, a Spaceship Computer, 2001