John Stossel, defending monopolies on The Daily Show: "Bill Gates got rich giving us software we wanted." There were other preposterous statements, but this one flabbergasted me so much that I forgot the rest.
That's true as long as his intended audience consists solely of corporate MIS people in the early '80s who were willing to accept anything with IBM's seal of approval and couldn't accept anything with a GUI because it made them feel insecure in their masculinity.
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