There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Union internal memo, 1876. The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. 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. We hope that Professor Langley will not put his substantial greatness as a scientist in further peril by continuing to waste his time and the money involved in further air experiments. For students and investigators of the Langley type there are more useful employment's with fewer disappointments and mortifications than have been the portion of aerial navigators since the days of Iccarus.