#10 Acer Founder Makes Fool Of Himself Over Apple Remarks

Quote: "Apple is like a mutant virus, escaping from the traditional structure of the PC industry, but the industry will still eventually build up immunity, thus further blocking this trend, and we believe the size of the non-Apple camp will exceed Apple's, because this is how the industry normally evolves." 

Date: Sept. 9, 2010

Stan Shih, the founder of Acer who’s remarks at Apple is indeed a real complement to the company which develops some of the best products in the world. Earlier, he had also claimed that all American PC brands would be dead within 20 years.

#9 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

Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft quoted this at a trade show which supported IBM PC’s 640KB RAM limit. Bill gates had been heavily promoting it that year.

But there exist various versions which say Gates never said this. Later, Bill gates himself commented about this as, "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."