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Can this quote die already? Rob has repeatedly demonstrated he doesn't know what's best for everyone.

dylan604 5y ago
It sounds like the 340k of memory quote. Yes, it did not age well, but you know what, some times people can't predict the future and at the time the quote was said, it made some sense then. The internet is full of "smarter than everyone else" that have never misspoke about anything, ever.
- andrewzah 5y ago
  And some quotes didn’t make sense at the time they were said, either.
- djur 5y ago
  He said it in 2012.
- sim_card_map 5y ago
  340k of memory quote is a myth
- Out_of_Characte 5y ago
  Bill gates did not misspeak. Because he has never said it in the first place. Not to rain on your parade, people make mistakes all the time and everyone has a duty to not escalate mistakes. " Gates himself has strenuously denied making the comment. In a newspaper column that he wrote in the mid-1990s, Gates responded to a student's question about the quote: "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." Later in the column, he added, "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." " https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quote-won-t-go-away----but-did-gates-really-say-it-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
  - dylan604 5y ago
    I specifically left the 340k quote unattributed for this reason. However, it is an (in)famous quote on the internet. That's all I was referencing. So, it's not my parade you're raining on, so hope you don't have a big jump from your soap box. You kind of proved my point of the internet if full of "people smarter than everyone else"

It sounds like the 340k of memory quote. Yes, it did not age well, but you know what, some times people can't predict the future and at the time the quote was said, it made some sense then. The internet is full of "smarter than everyone else" that have never misspoke about anything, ever.

andrewzah 5y ago
And some quotes didn’t make sense at the time they were said, either.
djur 5y ago
He said it in 2012.
sim_card_map 5y ago
340k of memory quote is a myth
Out_of_Characte 5y ago
Bill gates did not misspeak. Because he has never said it in the first place. Not to rain on your parade, people make mistakes all the time and everyone has a duty to not escalate mistakes. " Gates himself has strenuously denied making the comment. In a newspaper column that he wrote in the mid-1990s, Gates responded to a student's question about the quote: "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." Later in the column, he added, "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." " https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quote-won-t-go-away----but-did-gates-really-say-it-.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534312/the--640k--quo...
- dylan604 5y ago
  I specifically left the 340k quote unattributed for this reason. However, it is an (in)famous quote on the internet. That's all I was referencing. So, it's not my parade you're raining on, so hope you don't have a big jump from your soap box. You kind of proved my point of the internet if full of "people smarter than everyone else"