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The Ken Olsen quote is taken way out of context. He was thoroughly aware of personal computers in 1977. He was referring to behemoth home automation systems: h
by fjarlq 14y ago
The Ken Olsen quote is taken way out of context. He was thoroughly aware of personal computers in 1977. He was referring to behemoth home automation systems:
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp
The quote attributed to Lord Kelvin is a significant paraphrasing of a letter he wrote in 1896:
http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/letters.html#baden-powell http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/letters.html#baden-powell
- notahacker 14y agoIn 1902 Kelvin was more blunt about (i) balloons being more promising than the idea of aeroplanes and (ii) neither of them having any viable future http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/interview_aeronautics_and_wireless.html http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/interview_aeronautics_and_...