is something some people claim Bill Gates once said, yet he denies.
And from what he has actually said, I believe his denial:
I’ve said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time. I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There’s never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.
Do you realize the pain the industry went through while the IBM PC was limited to 640K? The machine was going to be 512K at one point, and we kept pushing it up. I never said that statement — I said the opposite of that.
Thing is, I can understand where a misquote like this began. Someone could have sarcastically put words into Gates' mouth, making fun of the limitations of the early Microsoft systems. And someone else hearing this, but not understanding the sarcasm, could have took it seriously. Is that what happened? Nobody will ever know. But it's possible.
is something some people claim Bill Gates once said, yet he denies.
And from what he has actually said, I believe his denial: Thing is, I can understand where a misquote like this began. Someone could have sarcastically put words into Gates' mouth, making fun of the limitations of the early Microsoft systems. And someone else hearing this, but not understanding the sarcasm, could have took it seriously. Is that what happened? Nobody will ever know. But it's possible.