Sometimes they’re mistaken. Other times they’re misguided. And sometimes, they’re just plain wrong. From off-target predictions about the future of technology to good old-fashioned Microsoft-bashing, we bring you six memorable quotes about technology that, for different reasons, can’t help but make you smile.

1. Six memorable quotes about
technology
Sometimes they’re mistaken. Other times they’re misguided. And
sometimes, they’re just plain wrong.
From off-target predictions about the future of technology to
good old-fashioned Microsoft-bashing, we bring you six
memorable quotes about technology that, for different reasons,
can’t help but make you smile.
Image courtesy of Tina Phillips/ FreeDigitalPhotos.net
By Jeff Jedras

2. Bob Dole
“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
-- Former U.S. Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole
Also, as Homer Simpson once observed, they have the Internet on
computers now. Who knows what they’ll think of next?

3. Bill Gates, Quote 1
“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
If he had known in 1981 how many different covers of Call Me
Maybe would be available in iTunes, clearly he would never have
made this remark.

4. Bill Gates, Quote Two
“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry
has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG”
-- Microsoft founder Bill Gates
Bill is absolutely correct.
Of course our cards would also crash far more frequently, and
the term “blue screen of death” would take on a whole new, and
rather unfortunate, meaning.

5. Scott McNealy
“The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because
then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the
right to speak it. “
-- Sun Microsystems co-founder Scott McNealy
That would only work if you get every manufacturer to pre-load the
latest revision of English at birth. Myself, I’d wait for the first service
pack. Also, consider a dual-boot.

6. Thomas Watson
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
-- Former IBM Chairman Thomas Watson
Watson shared this observation in 1943. And any day now, this
alleged post-PC era will surely begin, right?

7. Steve Wozniak
“Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.”
- Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
Now that’s a post-PC era I can get behind. And possibly
why the iMac came with a handle. So much more easy (and
stylish) to lob out a window than an ugly beige box.