640K = enough

Membaca judul di atas mungkin Anda sudah menebak apa isi artikel kita kali ini. Legenda 640K adalah legenda tentang besaran memori yang dinilai cukup (waktu itu) oleh Bill Gates. selanjutnya Anda akan dibawa bernostalgia di mana beberapa pendapat masa lalu cukup terdengar lucu untuk telinga orang masa kini.

"Computers in the future may weight no more than 1.5 tons." (Komputer di masa depan mungkin bisa berbobot kurang dari 1,5 ton)
-- Popular Mechanics, meramalkan rentetan sains yang menyedihkan, 1949

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Saya pikir ada pasar di dunia untuk yah, kira2 lima buah komputer.)
--Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." (Saya telah bepergian sepanjang dan selebar negeri ini dan berbicara dengan orang-orang yang terbaik, dan saya dapat meyakinkan Anda bahwa pengolahan data adalah demam yang tidak akan bertahan sampai tahun ini)
--Editor yang berwenang pada buku-buku bisnis untuk Prentice Hall, 1957

"But what ... is it good for?" (Tapi...bagusnya untuk apa sih?)
--Insinyur pada Divisi Advanced Computing Systems IBM, 1968, mengomentari microchip.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." (Tidak ada alasan bagi setiap orang untuk memiliki komputer di rumah mereka)
--Ken Olson, presiden, chairman dan Pendiri Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Telepon ini memiliki terlalu banyak kekurangan yang harus serius dipertimbangkan sebagai alat komunikasi. Perangkat ini belum ada nilai yang melekat untuk kami)
--internal memo Western Union, 1876.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (Kotak musik nirkabel (radio) tidak bisa dibayangkan bernilai komersil. Siapa yang mau membayar untuk pesan yang dikirimkan kepada "bukan orang tertentu?")
--David Sarnoff's associates dalam responnya mengenai investasi untuk radio, 1920-an.

"The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." (Konsepnya menarik dan telah terbentuk dengan baik, tapi agar mendapatkan nilai yang lebih baik dari pada nilai C, idenya harus masuk akal)
--Profesor bidang manajemen Yale University dalam tanggapannya pada proposal Fred Smith tentang layanan pengiriman lepas malam yang handal). (Kemudian Smith mendirikan Federal Express Corp.)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" (Siapa sih yang ingin mendengar aktor berbicara?)
--H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

"I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." (Aku senang bahwa yang akan jatuh di atas mukanya adalah Clark Gable, bukan Gary Cooper)
--Gary Cooper dalam keputusannya untuk tidak mengambil peran utama di "Gone With The Wind."

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." (kami tidak sukan suara mereka, dan musik gitar sudah hampir mati)
--Decca Recording Co. menolak the Beatles, 1962.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Mesin terbang yang lebih berat dari udara adalah mustahil)
--Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

"So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'"
(Kami pergi ke Atari dan berkata 'Hey, kati menemukan barang menakjubkan ini, walaupun dirakit dengan beberapa suku cadangmu, dan bagaimana menurutmu untuk mendanai kami? atau kami akan memberikannya kepadamu. Kami hanya ingin mengerjakannya. Bayarlah gaji kami dan kami akan bekerja untukmu.' dan mereka berkata 'tidak'. Terus kami pergi ke Hewlett-Packard, dan mereka berkata, 'hey, kami tidak memerlukanmu. Kamu bahkan belum pernah kuliah')
--Pendiri Apple Computer Inc., Steve Jobs dalam perjuangannya merayu Atari and H-P agar tertarik dengan Komputer personal karyanya bersama Steve Wozniak.

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." --1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.

"You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." --Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

"If you need more than 15 or 20 meg of storage on a hard drive, you should do it on the City's main frame." --1986 the head of the City of Dallas Information Services Department

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duel

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." --Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon." --Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

(And of course, the most famous one...)

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