When people talk with their social and work groups in certain ways that will carry over into how they talk to others. This is likely a common discussion he has with his life associations.

No home computer RAM is likely so basic a thought for him at this point that it didn’t occur to him how off putting speaking this idea would be to the masses while he sat in the interview. After he may have thought oops.

This is end game, spoken aloud. They do tend to tell us their intentions for our future.