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What popular quote are you tired of hearing?
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Bill Gates didn't even say it. And even if one only takes the spirit out of that quote whereupon software and hardware should be planned with foresight, it's so overused.
He denied he ever said it, but nearly 15 years after the quote. It was quoted heavily in 1980's computer magazine, always with a 1981 date. I've never seen the interview where he said it. Bill Gates is a consumate huckster, and I don't trust his word on anything, but without direct evidence, the most logical answer is all the times he did say in interviews that the (Microsoft) thought 640k would be enough memory for much longer than it was.