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1. "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No'. So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet."
- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and Hewlett-Packard interested in his personal computer.
2.
"With her drinks, the [push-button bar] console, is also programmed to deliver three pills: weight control, beauty complex I, and brain stimulator…Thank God for weight - control pills, she thinks for the ten-thousandth time."
- Carol Rinzler, "Femininity 2000,"
Woman in the Year 2000,1974.
3.
"Sex [by 1982] will have become much less a theme for either poetry or analysis. Much of the romanticism and all of the hypochondria on the subject will be over.'
- philosophy professor Irwin Edman, 1932.
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"It is hardly necessary to inform you that life [a hundred years hence] will be as nearly a holiday as it is possible to make it. Work will be reduced to a minimum by machinery. Everything will be brought to your hand by deaf and dumb waiters and sliding shelves, operated by electricity supplied to the entire country by the power of the sea."
- Editor C.M. Skinner, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, December 30, 1900.
5.
"By 1984, or maybe 1994, we won't need a post office."
- Richard N. Farmer, The Real World of 1984, 1973.
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