I received this in my post today and thought I would share it.

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon."

General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"

Other quips of a similar nature

Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.

Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.

The Macintosh car owners would have to get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.

The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.

If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

In reply to (OT) There's many a true word spoken in jest. by Gavin

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