Technology Quotables:
Techno-Experts said some things they wish they could take back.
- "I think there's a world market for maybe five PCs."
(Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.)
- Radio has no commercial value. 'Who would pay for a message sent to nobody?'
(Colleagues of David Sarnoff on his Radio project 1920's.)
- "Heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
(Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.)
- 'You mean to drill into ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.'
(Drillers rejecting Edwin L Drake's oil project, 1859.)
- "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
(HM Warner, Warner Bros, 1927.)
- "What can you do with a guy with ears like that?"
(Jack Warner, movie mogul, rejecting Clark Gable, 1930.)
- "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
(Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962.)
- "But what is it good for?"
(An IBM Engineer commenting on the micro chip, 1968)
- "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
(Marechal Ferdinand, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.)
- "We went to Atari, they said 'No'. So we went to HP;'We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet'."
(Apple founder Steve Jobs, 1980's)
- "Fred Astaire can't act, can't sing, balding... Can dance a little."
(MGM talent scout, 1928.)
- "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
(Charles H Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.)
- "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
(Bill Gates, Microsoft, 1981.)
- "There is no reason why anyone would want to have a computer in their home."
(Ken Olsen, founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977)
- "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be considered as a means of communication. The device is of no value to us."
(Western Union memo, 1876)
- "Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months.
People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night."
(Darryl Zanuck, Executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946)
- "The Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse."
(Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995)
- "Apple is already dead."
(Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997)
- "Two years from now, spam will be solved"
(Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004)
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