Toggle navigation
Collections
Fun
Jokes
Fortune
Photo
Nicknames
Blog
ﻮﺑﻻگ
Iran
But What ... Is It Good For?" --Engineer At The Advanced Computing Systems Division Of IBM, 1968, Commenting On The Microchip.
Home
›
Fortune Cookies
›
Famous Last Words
"But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced
Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the
microchip.
Related:
But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
What the hell is it good for? -- Robert Lloyd (engineer of the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM)
o colleagues who insisted that the microprocessor was the wave of the future, c. 1968...
IBM Advanced Systems Group -- a bunch of mindless jerks, who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
.. -- with regrets to D. Adam...
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay [commenting on Apollos]
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollo
Boy, I sure wish that I could be in the 'Advanced Systems Development' group!
Amigas are to computing what Barney is to entertainment..
DISCLAIMER: Use of this advanced computing technology does not imply an endorsement of Western industrial civilization.
The job of the engineer is to produce systems that people can trust.
By this standard, there exist very few software engineers....