"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." Dr. Lee DeForest, Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, 1981
"There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom." Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Popular Mechanics, 1949
"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out," Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
“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, 1876
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible," -- Lord Kelvin, 1895
"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy," When Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist funds for his project to drill for oil in 1859
"The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon," -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon to Queen Victoria
"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
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