Known categorical assertions—denied by the time

1. Stones from the sky can not fall, they have nowhere to take! (The Parisian Academy of Sciences about meteorites, 1772)

2. In the future computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. (Popular Mechanics log, 1949)

3. I think that in the world market we will find demand for five computers. (Thomas Watson – Director of IBM, 1943)

4. I traveled this country far and wide, communicated with the cleverest people and I can vouch that data processing is only a fad, fashion which will not last more than a year. (editor publisher Prentice Hall, 1957)

5. But that... can be useful in this thing? (a question on discussion of creation of a microchip in Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968)

6. No one may need to have a computer in their home. (Ken Olson – founder and President of the Corporation Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

7. Such device, as phone has too many shortcomings to consider it as a means of communication. Therefore, I believe that this invention has no value. (from discussions in the Western Union company in 1876)

8. This musical box without wires may not have any commercial value. Who will pay for the messages not intended for any private person? (business partners David sarnov in response to his sentence to invest the project of creation of radio, 1920)

9. The concept is interesting and well decorated. But, in order that the idea began to work, it must contain common sense. (Yale University professorship in response to Fred Smith's proposal on the organization of service of fast delivery; Fred Smith becomes the founder of service delivery fedex Corp.)



11. Yeah, who the hell are interested actors talk? (reaction Warner Brothers for the use of sound in film, 1927)

12. We don't like their sound, and, in General, guitar quartets – it's yesterday. (Decca Recording Co., rejected a record album of The Beatles, in 1962)

13.Flying machines heavier than air is impossible! (Lord Kelvin – physicist, President of the Royal Scientific Society, 1895)
 

14. Professor Goddard does not understand relations between action and reaction, it is not known that are necessary for the reaction conditions more suitable than a vacuum.

It seems that the Professor is experiencing an acute shortage in the elementary knowledge which are taught in high school. (an editorial in the New York Times, on the revolutionary work of Robert Goddard on the topic of creation of the rocket, 1921)

15. Drilling the earth for oil? Do you mean that it is necessary to drill the earth to find oil? Have you lost your mind. (response to the draft Edwin Drake in 1859)

16. Airplanes are interesting toys but no military value they represent. (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of strategy at the Academy of the General staff of France)

17. Everything that could be invented has already been invented. (Charles Duell – Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, 1899)

18. Theory of Louis Pasteur about microbes – ridiculous imagination. (Pierre Pasha is Professor of psychology at the University of Toulouse, 1872)

19. The abdomen, chest and brain will always be closed for the invasion of the wise and humane surgeon. (Sir John Eric Eriksen – British physician, appointed chief surgeon of Queen Victoria, 1873)

20. 640 kilobytes of memory should be enough for everyone. (Bill gates, 1981)

21. 100 million dollars – too high price for Microsoft. (IBM, 1982)

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