Bill Gates didn't say "640K ought to be enough for anybody"

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7 Famous Quotes About the Future That Are Actually Fake

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates in 1981, 7 Famous Quotes About the Future That Are Actually Fake

Not only does Gates deny saying this, nobody can seem to find independent evidence that he did. Back in the mid-2000s, the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations tried to track down where the quote came from to no avail.

"I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that," Gates himself wrote in 1997. "No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."