So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. 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. Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. Everything that can be invented has been invented. Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.