01. "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
      -- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 
	1949
      
      02. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
      -- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
      
      03. "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
      
      04. "But what ... is it good for?"
      -- Engineer at the  Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 
	1968, commenting on the microchip
      
      05. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
      -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment
      Corp.,1977
      
      06. "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
      
      07. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who
      would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
      -- David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for
      investment in the radio in the 1920s
      
      08. "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn 
      better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible."
      -- A Yale Univ. management professor in response to Fred Smith's
      paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went 
      on to found Federal Express Corp.)
      
      09. "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
      -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
      
      10. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face 
	and not Gary Cooper."
      -- Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in 
      "Gone With The Wind"
      
      11. "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."
      -- Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies
      
      12. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
      -- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
      
      13. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
      -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
      
      14. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.  
	The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."
      -- Spencer Silver on work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M
      "Post-It" Notepads
      
      15. "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.' They said, 'No.'  So then we went to 
      Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you.  You haven't 
      been through college yet.'"
      -- Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari
      and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
      
      16. "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and
      reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against 
      which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily 
      in high schools."
      -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary
      rocket work
      
      17. "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development
      across all of your muscles?  It can't be done.  It's just a fact of
      life.  You just have to  accept inconsistent muscle development as an
      unalterable condition of weight training."
      -- Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by
      inventing  Nautilus
      
      18. "Drill for oil?  You mean drill into the ground to try and find 
      oil? You're crazy."
      -- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to
      drill for oil in 1859
      
      19. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau."
      -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929
      
      20. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
      -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure
      de Guerre
      
      21. "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
      -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
      
      22. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
      -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872
      
      23. "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, Surgeon-Extraordinary to
      Queen Victoria, 1873
      
      24. "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
      -- Bill Gates, 1981