"I have traveled the length and the breadth of this country
and talked with the best people, and I can assure you the
data processing is a fad that won't last out the year"

The editor in charge of business books for
Prentice Hall, 1957


"Internet är kanske en fluga som blåser förbi"

Ines Uusmann, 1996

"Kan man flyga till månen så kan man väl bygga en tunnel"

Ines Uusmann


"Computers in the future may weight no more than 1.5 tons"

Popular Mecanics, 1949


"But what .... is it good for?"

Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems
Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchips

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"

Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home"

Ken Olson. President, Chairman and founder of
Digital Equipment Corp, 1977


"640 K ought to be enough for anybody"

Bill Gates, 1981


"Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value"

Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy,
Ecole Superieure de Guerre


"We don't like their sound, and the guitar music is on the way out"

Decca Recording Co, rejecting the Beatles, 1962


"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"

Lord Kelvin, Royal Society, 1895


"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?

David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for
investment in the radio in the 1920s


"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously
considered as a mean of communication.

Western Union internal memo, 1876


"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

H M Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"Everything that can be invented has been invented"

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1875

“Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote”
Grover Cleveland, 1905

“there is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of an atom”
Robert Millican, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1923


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