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"640K ought to be enough for anybody" (1981) <-- Gates claims he never said this: https://www.wired.com/1997/01/did-gates-really-say-640k-is-e...

"The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC" (1984)

"I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years" (1994)

"Today's Internet is not the information highway I imagine, although you can think of it as the beginning of the highway" (1995)

"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed" (1995)

"One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities" (1998)

Under oath: "I don't recall" 6x, "I don't remember" 14x, "I don't know" 22x (1998)

"[E-mail] spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time" (2004)