From the annals of history:

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas
Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” – Ken
Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “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.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” – H.M. Warner, Warner
Brothers, 1927.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” –
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” – Lord Kelvin,
president, Royal Society, 1895.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “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 just want to 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 got
through college yet.'” – Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on
attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s
personal computer.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” –
Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” – Charles H.
Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

 ¢â‚¬ ¢ “640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Bill Gates, 1981