The following quotes provide no great encouragement for the future.
Yet time marches on, and each great idea in its time....
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are
impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." - English
scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1899
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio
Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of
Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that every-
one in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.
- Time Magazine, 1966
"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
"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."
- Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on miniskirts, 1966
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -
Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H.M. Warner,
Warner Brothers, 1927
"You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Concert
manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way
out." - Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to
anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895
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