Comments on: The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History

By: Mr. Edison’s Kindle

Mr. Edison’s Kindle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 09:33:14 +0000

[...] all: Features “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” So said legendary tech visionary Alan Kay. He was absolutely correct. But he might have added that inventing the future is anything but a [...]

By: Mr. Edison’s Kindle

Mr. Edison’s Kindle — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:04:58 +0000

[...] all: Features “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” So said the legendary tech visionary Alan Kay. He was absolutely correct. But he might have added that it’s not a very reliable [...]

By: Walter M. Clark

Walter M. Clark — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:27:54 +0000

@Michael Peck, while the Apple Lisa was a commercial failure it most assuredly did ship. I passed on taking a job at a school district in 1984 with one of the jewels dangled in front of me the fact that they’d recently bought a Lisa to use for attendance projections.

By: Daryl

Daryl — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:14:44 +0000

I can’t believe you missed Charles Wright’s summing-up of the Amiga computer in some computer magazine review many, many years ago: “Adults don’t need colour.”

This at a time when the world was filled with 8-bit, monochrome “IBM-compatibles”!

By: Clive

Clive — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:48:53 +0000

I think the best Bill Gates quote is “I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.”

It is the opening sentence of the foreword to the “OS/2 Programmers Guide”.

By: Windows? Laptops? They’ll Never Catch On! | Technologizer

Windows? Laptops? They’ll Never Catch On! | Technologizer — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:13:28 +0000

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By: The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History « Chicago Mac/PC Support

The 25 Most Notable Quotes in Tech History « Chicago Mac/PC Support — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:26:44 +0000

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By: Michael Peck

Michael Peck — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:58:03 +0000

Of course, lost in all this idiotic “Jobs was right!” hurrah-nonsense is the fact that at the time, Jobs pooh-poohed the Macintosh efforts in favor of his own Lisa.

Which did not ship.

By: Bertolomie

Bertolomie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:57:19 +0000

I really, really like this article. Excellent work, Harry. One of your best, freshest Technologizer pieces yet!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:19:54 +0000

The infamous John C. Dvorak quote: “The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dvorak#Quotes