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nemo1618 on July 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Fiber Plans & Pricing

indeed. The scales of computing technologies have increased by many order of magnitude in their history, and it has never been "enough." Bill Gates infamously demonstrated the danger of predicting how much RAM/Clock speed/Bandwidth/etc. is "enough."

EDIT: fixed a rather wacky typo

freehunter on July 26, 2012 [–]

* Bill Gates infamously demonstra...*

Let me stop you right there.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484

engtech on July 26, 2012 | [–]

That's the first I've heard that Gates didn't say the 640k quote. Thank you for the correction.

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