People Will Never Buy One of Those!!! -- Top 10 Bonehead Technology Predictions [The telephone] is a great invention but who would want to use it? -- U.S President Rutherford Hayes (1872) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. -- Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation (1977) Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize [the light bulb] as a conspicuous failure. -- Chairman of the American Lighthouse Board (1880) Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever. -- Thomas Edison (1889) The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. -- internal memo to the President of RCA (1921) Who the h*** wants to hear actors talk? -- one of the Warner Brothers (1927) Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant. -- Canadian astronomer (1902) Television wont last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. -- Producer for 20th Century Fox (1946) We dont think wed do well in the cell phone business. -- Steve Jobs (2003) But what is this [microchip] good for? -- IBM Engineer (1968)
Posted on: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 22:40:02 +0000
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