[nigelsampson]

No one ever remembers the predictions you got wrong, just the ones you got right. It's the basis of all punditry.

[zalzane]

this is hard to swallow when someone posted a list of half a dozen horribly incorrect technology predictions in this very thread

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138247

[fhars]

Which were all urban legends or misquotes, though.