It would be interested if at least some of the people who made the statements and forecasts below would now be asked to answer the same questions/proposals and to make forecasts. In `81 Bill Gates said: “640 KB should be enough for everyone” :))
"The computers of the future could weigh no more than 1.5 tonnes."
Popular Mechanics forecasting the ruthless progress of science, 1949
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, IBM president, 1943
"I traveled along the country and talked to the best people and I can assure you that data processing is a rage that will not resist until the end of the year."
The editor -in -off of business cards at the Inventii Salon, 1957
"But ... what's good?"
An engineer from the Division of Advanced Computerized Systems of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
"There is no reason why someone would like a computer in his house."
Ken Olson, founding president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"This 'phone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered a means of communications. The device has no value for us in principle."
Communication of Western Union, 1876.
"This wireless musical box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to anyone?"
The associates of David Sarnoff responding to the requests to invest in the radio in the 1920s
"The concept is interesting and well developed, but to get more than note 7 the idea must be achievable"
A management professor at Yale University responding to Fred Smith's papers who proposed a confidence -night delivery service. (Smith subsequently founded Federal Express Corp.)
"Who the hell does he want to hear the actors speaking?"
H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
"I am just glad that Clark Gable will be a distress and not Gary Cooper."
Gary Cooper on the edge of the decision not to accept the main role in the film "On the wings of the wind"
"A cake store is a bad idea. However, the market statistics look like America likes crisp cakes, not the soft ones, as you do."
The response of Debbi Fields's idea to start Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
"We do not like their sound, and guitars are no longer fashionable."
Decca Recording Co. respingandu-i pe The Beatles, 1962.
"Flying cars heavier than air are impossible."
Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1895.
"If I had thought I would no longer do the experiment. Literature was full of examples that told you you couldn't do it."
Spencer Silver during the work that led to the invention of adhesive tickets such as "post-IT"
"So we went to Atari and said" May, we have an extraordinary thing made with some of your pieces, what would you say if you would secure our funds? Or if not, anyway we give it. We just do. Pay us the salary, we come to work for you. " You haven't finished the college yet. '"
The founder of Apple Computer Inc., Steve Jobs, in an attempt to attract Atari and HP's attention to his personal computer and Steve Wozniak
"Professor Goddard does not know the relationship between action and reaction, nor the need to have something better than a vacuum cleaner against which to react. It seems that the elementary knowledge taught daily in high school."
1921 editorial of the New York Times newspaper about Robert Goddard's revolutionary ideas in relation to rockets
"Do you want to have a consistent and uniform development of muscles all over your body? It is not a reality of life. You simply have to accept an inconsistent development of the muscles as an unchanged condition of training."
The response received by Arthur Jones, who solved the "unresolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus
"Let's drown for oil? I mean, we are in the ground to find oil? Are you crazy."
The drilling that Edwin L. Drake tried to hire to drill oil in 1859.
"The actions have reached what seems to be a permanently high stake."
Irving Fisher, professor of economics, Yale University, 1929.
"The planes are interesting toys but without military value."
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, professor of strategy, eco -superieure de guerre.
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell, member of the U.S. inventive salon, 1899.
"Louis Pasteur's theory with bacteria is the ridiculous fiction."
Pierre Package, Physiology Professor at Toulouse, 1872
"The abdomen, chest and brain will always remain closed to the entry of the wise and human surgeon."
Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed extraordinary surgeon by Queen Victoria, 1873
“640 KB It should be enough for everyone. ”
Bill Gates, 1981
