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Naturally, he didn't say anything about [[radioactivity]].
Naturally, he didn't say anything about [[radioactivity]].
[[User:FrankC|FrankC aka ComedyFan]] 12:15, 26 December 2009 (EST)
[[User:FrankC|FrankC aka ComedyFan]] 12:15, 26 December 2009 (EST)
== Thomas Watson ==
From the 2005 article [http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2005-07-05-famous-quotes_x.htm Tech titans wish we wouldn't quote them on this baloney]:
''IBM's archives staff has been asked repeatedly to find this quote. They can't. It's not in any of Watson's documented speeches, and this is a company that documented nearly everything Watson ever uttered. In my research for the book, I never found a reference to such a comment in any of Watson's papers or any story in the press.''
''It's true that Watson at the time thought electronic computers would be sold only to research labs, but he was hoping to sell them to a lot of research labs — certainly more than five. Watson never doubted the power of electronics. But he, and just about everyone else at the time, failed to comprehend why any business would need to do thousands of calculations per second, particularly if it required an expensive, room-size, power-guzzling machine that would break down constantly — which was the state of computer art in 1943. (Note: Today's high-end PCs can process around 2.5 billion operations per second.)''
Conservapedia should check this entry... [[User:FrankC|FrankC aka ComedyFan]] 15:54, 26 December 2009 (EST)