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Astute Visionaries?

“Computers in the future may weigh no more
than 1.5 tons.”  — Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless
march of science, 1949
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”  –
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked
with the best people, and I can assure you that [...]

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Things to consider when negotiating.

If an unshaven doctor with uncombed hair, wearing a torn and dirty
coat, approached a man and asked him to open his mouth and say “ah,”
the man might bolt away in fear of his health.  If a person posing
as a doctor, dressed in a medical frock, clean shaven, hair neatly
combed and gray at the temples, and [...]

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