[Elsie]

Anyone who thinks about this problem for more than a few minutes has to realize that it is impossible to create the machine that some people claim Facebook was somehow promising. There is not going to be any such machine. Humans are always going to be involved in determining what it is that computers should count.

640 K ought to be enough for anybody.

Often attributed to Gates in 1981. Gates considered the IBM PC's 640 KB program memory a significant breakthrough over 8-bit systems that were typically limited to 64 KB, but he has denied making this remark.

I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time … I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640 K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

[Covenantor]

“640 K ought to be enough for anybody. Bill Gates”

Clearly a falsehood...

What he really said was, “Windows floats the bloat...”