Thomas J. Watson Sr.? Thomas J. Watson Jr.? Chris Morgan? David Langford? Howard H. Aiken? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Collections of boneheaded predictions are popular with people who enjoy laughter combined with commiseration or superiority. Computers were extraordinarily expensive in the 1950s. First-generation machines used vacuum tubes which were fragile and unreliable. The leader …
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