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		graderjs on Aug 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Software Dev Can't Be Automated – It’s a Creative ... Is that right? Seems the common take is that this guy underestimated computers. Like the guy who cashed out his Apple investment for 800 (Ronald Wayne).

hwayne on Aug 16, 2021 [–]

I started looking up the provenance of the quote, then stopped, because there's an entire wikipedia section on how it never happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_attrib...

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