Ah Beng's Memo: What Other People Said

Ah Beng's Memo: What Other People Said
Tan Ah Beng
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Adler & van-Doren: How to Read a Book, 1974 -- Until approximately the end of the 19^th century, the major scientific books were written for a lay audience. [...] Most modern scientists do not care what lay readers think, and so they do not even try to reach them.
Business Week: Aug 2, 1968 -- With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry is not likely to carve out a big slice of the US market for itself.
Calvin (to Hobbes): Bill Watterson -- You don't get to be mom if you can't fix everything just right!
Editors of the Austrian Economist to Peter F. Drucker, 1927 -- Nonsense, Nazism was beaten to pulp in the last German election and is as good as dead.
Peter F. Drucker: Post-capitalist Society, 1993 -- Once people have laptops computers, fax machines, telephones, copiers, video cassete recorders, in their possessions and in their homes - let alone television receivers which can pluck messages from any satellite overhead -- there is no way to reestablish control over information.
Peter F. Drucker: Adventures of a Bystander, 1991 -- No matter how conformist, how conventional, or how dull, people become fascinating the moment they talk of the things they do know, or are interested in.
Bill Gates: 1981 -- 640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Ein-Dor - Segev, ISR 4(2) 1993 -- Any computerized system with a user or operator interface is an Information System, provided the computer is not physically embedded.
M. Hammer: BPR, 1992 -- Why do we do what we do ? And why do we do it the way we do ?.
Lavoisier: Elements of Chemistry, 1789 -- Every branch of physical science, must consist of three things: the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent the facts, and the words by which these facts are expressed. [...] And, as ideas are preserved and communicated by means of words, it necessarily follows that we cannot improve the language of any science without at the same time improving the science itself; neither can we, on the other hand, improve a science without improving the language or nomenclature which belongs to it.
Lord Kelvin: 1895 -- Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.
Paul Krugman: HBR May-June 1996 -- Customers put up with a tolerable until a competitor does a better job and turns it into a dissatisfier.
Popular Mechanics: 1949 -- Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
TrijayaFM: Talkshow about PT. Aqua Golden Mississippi -- Low profile, high profit !.
Ken Olson (Digital): 1977 -- There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
Mark Twain: 1870 -- The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 -- Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Bill Watterman: Calvin & Hobbes, 1995 -- My strip is low-tech, one man operation, and I like it that way.
Thomas J. Whatson (IBM): 1943 -- I think there is a world market for about five computers.

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