On 11/15/05, Robin Laing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Isn't this the same person that stated that 640Mb of ram would be more > than enough? Isn't this the same person that came in late to the > Internet? Isn't this the same person that missed the search engine > boom started by Yahoo and expanded by Google?
Bill Gates never said that. It is a widely reported internet myth. http://tafkac.org/celebrities/bill.gates/gates_memory.html QUESTION: I read in a newspaper that in 1981 you said, ``640K of memory > should be enough for anybody.'' What did you mean when you said this? > > ANSWER: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. > No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory > is enough for all time. > Some people claim that Bill Gates also said in 1995 that the Internet was a passing fad. But it was in this same year that he wrote the book "The Road Ahead" which had a big role for the Internet, or, as they called it back then, the "Information Superhighway". http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670772895/qid%3D1132083344/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/102-3639256-2800913 -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
