Parents Network: JokeS & Quotes Collection. Ken Olsen Computer Quote. Claim: In 1977, Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, said, "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
" Example: [Gatlin, 1999] Origins: We love it when we can find examples of prominent politicians, businessmen, scientists, or artists making statements that indicate they completely misjudged or failed to see the obvious in their given lines of endeavor. There's comfort to be found in the thought that maybe some of these people became great successes more through luck than anything else, that they hadn't done anything we couldn't have done but were merely fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time. Over 1,000,000 Famous Quotes.