[Rumor]

World`s Worst Predictions � PinDaaL, Where The Stuff Buzz …

A couple of noteworthy ones.

We don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.
Hewlett-Packard’s rejection of Steve Jobs, who went on to found Apple Computers

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981

[Dakar²]

Nothing like burning yourself.

Originally Posted by Margaret Thatcher, 1974

It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.

[Eug]

640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Bill Gates, 1981

Bill Gates never said that.

[Sherman Homan]

- Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

That one is actually true! In these days of modern times, most computers weigh less than 1.5 tons.

[mdc]

Originally Posted by Sherman Homan 

That one is actually true! In these days of modern times, most computers weigh less than 1.5 tons.

Look where technology has come in a little under 60 years. Imagine where it'll be in another 60?

[Oisín]

A lot of those (like the Western Union one) were perfectly true when they were made: the way the telephone looked at that time, it was useless to them. It was only later installments of the apparatus that were useful.

Some of the other ones (“Guitar music is on its way out”) are just stupid, though.

[Eriamjh]

"The iPod is overpriced." - Anyone in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, etc.

[mduell]

"[I think] there is a worldwide market for about five computers." Thomas Watson, IBM Chairman, 1943

[JoshuaZ]

`Your son will never amount to anything.`

Things my second grade teacher told my parents before my father stormed out of the parent teacher conference.

[mdc]

Now look at you, you have 3,270 posts on a Mac Forum.

[Dakar²]

"You'll never get laid"

3,419 women to me before Ms. 3420 proved them wrong.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Eug 

Bill Gates never said that.

I keep hearing he did/he didn't.

Is there a final word on this or is Bill just covering up?

[Sherman Homan]

Gates did not say it.
Wired has an amusing shoot down of this quote controversy:
Wired News: Did Gates Really Say 640K is Enough For Anyone?
Although he has said some other ridiculous stuff. Most recently about that infamous iPod killer: The Zune!

[macintologist]

The Democratic Party is irrelevant

-Conservative bloggers circa 2001-2005

[Eriamjh]

Never is a long time. Never hasn't stopped.

[BlueSky]

I predict Jesus will smite into invisiblivion some of the posts in here.

Edit: What'd I tell ya.

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by Eriamjh 

Never is a long time. Never hasn't stopped.

When did never start?

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by BlueSky 

I predict Jesus will smite into invisiblivion some of the posts in here.

Edit: What'd I tell ya.

did i miss something in my hiatus from here? it's okay for the mods to delete posts now? I thought my "no soup for you!" comment was funny?

any who, my prediction: I might get a PM from a mod

Alex

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by brassplayersrock 

it's okay for the mods to delete posts now?

Yes, in order to rerail the thread.

[brassplayersrock²]

*shrug* hmm, all righty then.

Alex

[centerchannel68]

My point is still valid. Must have been a bunch of christian crybabies complaining to the mods to get my posts deleted. Cute. If it were a few hundred years ago, I'd have been burned at the stake instead. Some things never change.

[BlueSky]

Originally Posted by centerchannel68 

My point is still valid. Must have been a bunch of christian crybabies complaining to the mods to get my posts deleted. Cute. If it were a few hundred years ago, I'd have been burned at the stake instead. Some things never change.

Actually you probably would have been secured to a stretcher thingy until your bone joints popped out, and then no one would've blamed you for whining.

[osiris]

"There, over the hill, I think they're friendly Indians." - General Custer,
as quoted by Edward L. Norton, Thespian.

[philm]

"iphone coverage won't be available in many states"

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by philm 

"iphone coverage won't be available in many states"

Like I said, Apple should build its own antenna's so 100% of everybody everywhere can get it or else the iPhone will flop.

[Jawbone54]

"I'm not the dead sexiest person in the MacNN forums."

Me, circa mid 2006

[Dakar²]

"The new theme should be implemented in the next year"

-MacNN 2005

[Oisín]

Come now, that’s just mean!

[kc311v2]

"Just trust me on this one. If you bathe in your own feces, you will be cured."

Europe, 1351 AD

[turtle777]

"The sun is gonna shine tomorrow."



I just doubt it

-t

[Rumor]

"My Little Pony is going to make a comeback"

[CharlesS]

A lot of those lack historical context. The one that said that computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons obviously was referring to the future relative to 1949, when computers weighed more than 1.5 tons. That wasn't a "world's worst prediction", it was a true one, as at some point after 1949 the computer must have dropped below the 1.5 ton barrier.

If some article said in the mid-90s that computers would eventually reach 1 GHz clock speeds, that wouldn't be a "world's worst prediction", even though computers nowadays are more powerful than that.

Oh, and for some off-topicness:

Originally Posted by Dark Helmet 

Like I said, Apple should build its own antenna's so 100% of everybody everywhere can get it or else the iPhone will flop.

Or... they could just sign on with multiple carriers instead of making exclusive deals with just one of them.

[brassplayersrock²]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

If some article said in the mid-90s that computers would eventually reach 1 GHz clock speeds, that wouldn't be a "world's worst prediction", even though computers nowadays are more powerful than that.

*smiles and looks down at my 1GHZ TiPB and pats it*

Originally Posted by Sherman Homan 

Gates did not say it.
Wired has an amusing shoot down of this quote controversy:
Wired News: Did Gates Really Say 640K is Enough For Anyone?

That doesn't shoot it down at all. Gates would not admit to saying that if he did. That doesn't prove anything.

Not that I do believe the myth is true - but that article doesn't disprove it either.

[Eug]

Originally Posted by hayesk 

That doesn't shoot it down at all. Gates would not admit to saying that if he did. That doesn't prove anything.

Not that I do believe the myth is true - but that article doesn't disprove it either.

I have never seen an actual source that documented him saying that. Yet there are several quotes of him refuting he said that.

Thus, I choose to believe the latter. This 640 Kb business is like an urban legend.

[Doofy]

"Things will only get better" - Tony Blair, 1997.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Doofy 

"Things will only get better ... once we win the war of, uhm, against terror" - Tony Blair, 1997.

Fixinated.

-t

[Dakar²]

Originally Posted by Oisín 

Come now, that’s just mean!

I'm sure somewhere, the admin is holding their crotches in pain.

[Kerrigan]

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet:

Originally Posted by Lateralus

And now that we're within days of finally deploying [the Forum Redesign], do you honestly think a thread in the feedback forum is going to stop it?

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

Surprised no one has mentioned this yet:

That's too serious to make fun of

-t

[Kerrigan]

Who can dig up the oldest quote proclaiming that the redesign is right around the corner?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Kerrigan 

Who can dig up the oldest quote proclaiming that the redesign is right around the corner?

"The redesign is right around the corner"

- Tooki, 1952

[Dark Helmet]

Originally Posted by CharlesS 

See above. And, Apple got Cingular to make exceptions for them - same for others as well I'm sure.

They sure did. Now ask yourself why no T-mobel? Apple doesn't want a bigger market?

Are you nuts?

[nonhuman]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

"The redesign is right around the corner"

- Tooki, 1952

Lame...

"The Forume Redesine is right arounde the Corner"

-Thomas Jefferson, 1775

[centerchannel68]

Originally Posted by nonhuman 

Lame...

"The Forume Redesine is right arounde the Corner"

-Thomas Jefferson, 1775

Lame...

"let us remaketh the forums"

Philosophicles, 1200BC

[Dakar²]

Lame...

"let there be light... and a MacNN redesign on the 8th Day"

- God

[Kerrigan]

"I will lure them into false expectations, their interminable desire for a forum redesign will usher them all into Hell"

-Satan, right after he was booted out of heaven

[davesimondotcom]

That won't work.

- Someone telling someone who invented something

(such as the professor who didn't think FedEx would work.)

[turtle777]

"I need this parade like a f****g bullet in my head" (J F Kennedy).


Oh, wait, this was a famous last word. Nevermind.

-t

[besson3c]

"We should redesign the MacNN forum"


- God's Dad