“I see little commercial potential for the internet for the next 10 years.”
This is my favourite of the lot, for two reasons:
a) Gates said it on COMDEX in 1994, the same year when Amazon.com was founded.
b) I would dare say that he wasn't that much off -- he said little (and not "none"), and one could argue that Internet's commercial potential is still to be fully realized. At the very least, Amazon.com itself reached its first profitable quarter in 2001, making Gates' forecast much more accurate.
Yes, when I read that I made sure to note the year. It is true, he was not far off.
I would love to see what else he said around this sentence, maybe he did recognize the huge non-commercial potential but this is the only sentence that got attention.
This is my favourite of the lot, for two reasons:
a) Gates said it on COMDEX in 1994, the same year when Amazon.com was founded.
b) I would dare say that he wasn't that much off -- he said little (and not "none"), and one could argue that Internet's commercial potential is still to be fully realized. At the very least, Amazon.com itself reached its first profitable quarter in 2001, making Gates' forecast much more accurate.