Technology
‘The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse.’ There is no evidence that people want to use these things. What businessman knows about point sizes on typefaces or the value of variable point sizes? Who out there in the general marketplace even knows what a ‘font’ is? The whole concept and attitude towards icons and hieroglyphs is actually counterrevolutionary — it’s a language that is hardly ‘user friendly’. This type of machine was developed by hardware hackers working out of Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. It has yet to find popular success. There seems to
be some mysterious user resistance to this type of machine.’ - John C. Dvorak on why the Macintosh would fail, San Francisco Examiner, 1984
‘There isn’t a compelling incentive to get
mainstream consumers
to buy the iPad’ –Research firm Simpson Carpenter
‘There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.’ - Edward Tufte
‘Naturally we feel that mentally ill people are not what we are looking for when we hire programmers – although there is no empirical data to support or contradict that view…… Is it appropriate to give tests for mental illness to anyone applying for that
kind of job?’ - Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming
[On Email] - ‘Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.’ – Dennis Gabor, British physicist, 1962.
‘But what... is it good for?’ - An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.
‘Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps
only weigh 1 1/2 tons.’ - Popular Mechanics, 1949
‘It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer
technology.’ -John Von Neumann, circa 1949
‘The Internet? We are not
interested in it’ -Bill Gates, 1993
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