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"Computers
in the future may weight no more than 1.5 tons."
- Popular Mechanics
"I
think there is world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
"The '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
- Associates of NBC president David Sarnoff (responding
to his recommendation, in the 1920's that they invest in
radio
"I'm
just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face
and not Gary Cooper."
- Gary Cooper (happy he didn't take the lead role in Gone
With The Wind.
"A
cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research
reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy
cookies like you make."
"Heavier
than air flying machines are impossible."
- Lord Kelvin, President, Royal; Society, 1895
"Louis
Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
"640K
out to be enough for anybody"
- Bill Gates, 1981
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