"640k ought to be enough for anyone."
— Misquotations
January 1, 1970
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There is no reference to this ever being said by Bill Gates . The earliest reference to Gates saying something like this appeared in the 1985 (not 1981) issue of InfoWorld magazine, and was regretful of the past rather than predictive of the future: "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory." Even this was without a precise reference and not part of an interview. The quote bears similarity to one by Bob Newhart: "Later, I moved up to the 6
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There is no reference to this ever being said by Bill Gates . The earliest reference to Gates saying something like this appeared in the 1985 (not 1981) issue of InfoWorld magazine, and was regretful of the past rather than predictive of the future: "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory." Even this was without a precise reference and not part of an interview. The quote bears similarity to one by Bob Newhart: "Later, I moved up to the 6