21 Craziest Things Ever Said by Tech CEOs


#10 Bill Gates Small Memory Gaffe

Quote:” No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody."

Date: 1981

The quote in today’s scenario excites laugh just for how lame Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, was about predicting the memory limit. However Gates denies that he ever said anything like this but it was supposedly quoted quoted at a computer trade show in support of the IBM PC's 640KB RAM limit, which he'd been heavily promoting that year.

#9 Atari Chief Tells Apple Founders They Smell & Product Sucks

Quote: "Get your feet off my desk, get out of here, you stink, and we're not going to buy your product."

Date: 1976

As the story goes, the two Apple founders, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, went into Atari President Joe Keenan's office offering to sell him their latest personal computer, but all they got in return was the above mentioned quote.

#8 Google Assumes We Want it to Direct Our Lives

Quote: "I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions, they want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

Date: 8/14/2010

During a sitdown with the Wall Street Journal, Google's Schmidt touched on several subjects from the company's net neutrality stance to the Android platform. However things turned weird after he shared his vision of Google's future and how users would rely on the search engine to tell them "what they should be doing next." His quotes certainly did not go well with netizens.