"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

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"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't likely to carve out a big slice of the US market."

— =Business Week, August 2, 1968

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."

— Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."

— Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of not military value."

— Marechal Ferdinand Foch, French Professor of Military Strategy

"There will never be a bigger plane built."

— A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin-engine plane that carried ten people.

"Can't dance. Can't act. Can sing a little."

— Notes from Fred Astaire's screen test.

"You ought to go back to driving a truck."

— Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954

"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

“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

"Forget it. No Civil War picture ever made a nickel."

— MGM executive, advising against investing in "Gone With The Wind."

"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."

— Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on the miniskirt, 1966

"We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy."

— Simon Newcomb, astronomer, 1888

"The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives."

— Admiral William Leathy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

"It's only a toy.

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— Gardiner Green Hubbard, Alexander Graham Bell's future father-in-law, on seeing Bell's telephone in 1876

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

— Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the serious job of postal transportation."

— Second Assistant U.S. Postmaster General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922

"I think that there is a world market for maybe five computers."

— Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"It's a great invention, but who would want to use it anyway?"

— President Rutherford B. Hayes, after a demonstration of Bell's telephone

"The phonograph has no commercial value at all."

— Thomas Edison

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first 6 months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."

— Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, 1946

"The radio craze will die out in time."

— Thomas Edison, 1922.

[Honehe]

i need none of those items ..i hear voices in my head

Love the piccy!

[MooseSeeds]

i need none of those items ..i hear voices in my head

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