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| Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons | Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 |
| I think there is a world market for maybe five computers. | Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 |
| I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year. | The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 |
| But what is it [microchip] good for? | Enginner at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968 commenting on the microchip |
| There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home. | Ken Olson, President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 |
| This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. | Western Union, internal memo, 1876 |
| The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? | David Sarnoff's associations in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s |
| Who...wants to hear actors talk? | H.M Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927 |
| We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out. | Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 |
| Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. | Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895 |
| So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We jsut wantt o do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you. And they said, NO. So then we went to Hewlett Packard, and they said, Hey, we don't need you. You haven't gotten through college yet. | Apple Computer Inc., founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Attari and Hewlett Packard interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer |
| Airplanes are intersteing toys, but are of no military value. | Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superiuer de Guerre |
| The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusi on of the wise and humane surgeon. | Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, Surgeon-Extroidinary to Queen Victoria, 1873 |
| 640K ought to be enough [memory/hard drive space] for anybody. | Bill Gates, 1981 |
