Birdwatch Note
2024-07-19 06:31:09 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING
There's no evidence Thomas Watson ever said this. The Yale Book of Quotations found the earliest record in a 1981 book. IBM states it's a misunderstanding of T. Watson Jr.'s 1953 stockholders' meeting remarks This appears to be an urban legend rather than a factual statement. https://seamussweeney.net/2017/06/06/i-think-there-is-a-world-market-for-maybe-five-computers/
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- summary
- There's no evidence Thomas Watson ever said this. The Yale Book of Quotations found the earliest record in a 1981 book. IBM states it's a misunderstanding of T. Watson Jr.'s 1953 stockholders' meeting remarks This appears to be an urban legend rather than a factual statement. https://seamussweeney.net/2017/06/06/i-think-there-is-a-world-market-for-maybe-five-computers/