Being a high-value top notch CEO does not mean that you have the gift of predicting the future. Here is a sample of some assertions that does not need any comments

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”
(but there are no confirmation that the quote is real)
Thomas Watson, president of International Business Machines (IBM), 1943.

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”
Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977.

“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer.”
Bill Gates, chairman and founder of Microsoft, [...]

Here in France, we had this morning a funny surprise during our first request to Google France. Indeed, the homepage presents this small sentence under the search box “Nouveau! Le téléphone HTC Magic est disponible. En savoir Plus”. This litterally means  “New! The telephone HTC Magic is available. To know more about it “, with a link to this this page of google.fr.

On the target page, a cool picture of the HTC Magic Android, and 2 links to a SFR (the third  French mobile phone company – 19 million clients, including over 3 million using 3G technology, according to wikipedia) [...]

I was talking recently to three excellent engineers from Yahoo, Google and Microsoft this week, and that reminded me that I meant to do this post a little while ago. So I’ll keep this post short and sweet: if you’re an excellent Yahoo or Google or Microsoft engineer with solid experience in everything, I am hiring. If you want to apply for a Research Engineer position  in the beautiful town of Orsay (France), use my e-mail and we won’t need recruiters to discuss. Thanks!
The beginning of this post remind you of something? yes, sure, it’s a pastiche of [...]