[884] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
For the person collecting quotes about networking...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Lummis)
Mon Jul 1 09:50:22 1991
From: Bob Lummis <bob@aecom.yu.edu>
To: com-priv@uu.psi.com
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 91 9:49:14 EDT
To the person asking for quotes: here are a few whimsical ones that might
be considered indirectly relevant to networking.
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"Everybody who needs a computer already has one."
-in INFOWORLD about 1985 to explain why the newly announced Amiga computer
would fail.
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"Frankly, I never took computers too seriously. I figured they were a
fad, like the Hula Hoop and the Pet Rock.
-Irma Bombeck in her syndicated column
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"The 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a
means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us."
-Western Union internal memo, 1877
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When questioned about the utility of his newly-invented dynamo, Farady
responded: "Of what use is a baby?"
-quoted in Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, page 123 (Feb., 1988).
