"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."
-Dr. Lee DeForest, Inventor of TV
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-Bill Gates, 1981
"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
-The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
-Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
-H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"I'm just tlad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
-Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind"
"We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out."
-Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
And THIS is the best one:
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
