phrases and quotes unfortunate reading!
"Digging in the earth to find oil? You're crazy, man! (Is the answer to Edwin L. Drake found by searching for people to carry out his project to drill the earth for oil in 1859)
"talkies? But who the hell wants to hear actors talk? (HM Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, 1927)
I think there is a world market for about four or five computers (Thomas Watson, IBM, 1943)
$ 100 million is too much money to pay Microsoft (IBM, 1982)
But ... what is going to serve this invention? What the hell we want the microchips? (One of the engineers of the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968)
In years in which we live we can say that everything that can be invented has already been invented (Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the Patent U.S., 1899)
The wireless music box has no for us no imaginable commercial value. Who the heck would pay for a message not being sent to nobody in particular? (David Sarnoff's Associates, 1920, in response to the proposed investment in the radio)
This rare tool they have called Phone only presents problems. You can not be seen as a means of communication. For our company has no inherent value (Western Union internal memo, 1876)
The music they play is not like us at all. We also believe that the guitar is an instrument that does not see and no future. (Company Decca Recording Co., 1962, rejecting a contract for the Beatles)
The theory of germs that aims to introduce Louis Pasteur is just ridiculous fiction (Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology Toulose, 1872)
I make them laugh! It is impossible to manufacture devices that can fly being heavier than the air itself! (Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895)
A memory of 640K should be enough for anybody (Bill Gates, 1981)
Looking like a toy can be considered interesting. But it is absurd to give the airplane a value in the military field (Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Field Marshal French, Scholar military strategy)
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