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"640K ought to be enough
(memory) for anybody." -- Bill Gates (1981)
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"Well informed people know it
is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible
to do so, the thing would be of no practical value." -- Boston Post
editorial (1865)
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"I think I may say without
contradiction that when the Paris Exhibition closes, electric light will
close with it, and no more will be heard of it." -- Erasmus Wilson,
Professor at Oxford University, (1878)
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"Who the hell wants to hear
actors talk?" -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
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"The world potential market
for copying machines is 5000 at most." -- IBM to the founder of Xerox
(1959)
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"Stocks have reached what
looks like a permanently high plateau." -- Irving fisher, Professor of
Economics, Yale University (1929)
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"There is no reason for any
individual to have a computer in his home." -- Ken Olson, President,
Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
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"No one will pay good money to
get from Berlin to Potsdam in one hour when he can ride his horse there in
one day for free." -- King William I of Prussia, 1864, on hearing of the
invention of trains
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"The average American family
hasn't time for television." -- New York Times, 1939
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"I think there is a world
market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, Chairman, IBM, 1949
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"Man will not fly for 50
years." -- Wilbur Wright, aviation pioneer, 1901 (two years later his
brother Orville made the first manned flight)
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"the proposition, that
the sun is the centre and does not revolve about the earth is foolish,
absurd, false in theology and heretical." -- The Inquisition, on Galileo's
proposals
Great Predictions, NOT!
