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    No flying machine will ever reach New York from Paris.

    One of the Wright brothers said that. It’s actually my favorite quote because it always reminds me we have no idea what the fuck we’re wrong about.

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      Scientists in the 1800s also proclaimed we figured everything out and science was completed.

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      At a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC’s 640KB usable RAM limit: “640K ought to be enough for anybody.”

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        That quote was in the context of the 1981 personal computer market, and in that context is correct.

        It’s like a game company CEO saying 12GB of video ram is enough in 2024 so we don’t all need an RTX 4090.

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        That one is apocryphal if I remember correctly, but even if he did say it, at the time it was pretty much true.