Great quotes Ashley! He might have predicted some things incorrectly, but I think he’s still quite a visionary with a good attitude (though perhaps a bit clouded nowadays, due to MS’ size and succes).

Michael Dobrofsky wrote:

“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”[Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981]

He didn’t actually say that; it’s an urban legend ([tafkac.org] + [bits.blogs.nytimes.com]). There is no proof anywhere that he said that.

Hadn’t heard about the urban legend claim…interesting. It does sound like something Gates would’ve said…but yeah, could be an UL.

He didn’t actually say that; it’s an urban legend ([tafkac.org] + [bits.blogs.nytimes.com]). There is no proof anywhere that he said that.

“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
[Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981]

And I still don’t understand why we need 640K of memory. That’s more than enough for Vista.