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“The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C,’ the idea must be feasible.”
-A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith’s paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)

“Apple is already dead.”
Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

“Man will never reach the moon, regardless of all future scientific advances.”
-Dr. Lee DeForest, “Father of radio and Grandfather of television”

“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
-Lord Kelvin President, Royal Society, 1895

“Man will not fly for 50 years.”
-Wilbur Wright to his brother Orville in 1901

“Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is ridiculous fiction.”
-Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

“The super computer is technologically impossible. It would take all of the water that flows over Niagra Falls to cool the heat generated by the number of vacuum tubes required.”
-Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University

“I don’t know what use anyone could find for a machine that would make copies of documents. It certainly couldn’t be a feasible business by itself.”
-The head of IBM, refusing to back the idea, forcing the inventor to found Xerox.

“No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.”
-Orville Wright, 1908

“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.”
-Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

“The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”
-Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project

“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us”
-Western Union internal memo, 1876

“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”
-David Sarnoff’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920’s

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said, ‘you can’t do this.”
-Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for the 3-M “Post-It” notepads.

“Drill for oil? You mean, drill into the ground to try to find oil? You’re crazy!”
-Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859

“Stocks have reach what looks like a permanently high plateau.”
-Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929

“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”
-Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Supérieure de Guerre, France

“I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers.”
-Thomas Watson, President of IBM, 1943

“Space travel is bunk.”
-Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of Britain, 1957

“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”
-Bill Gates, 2004

“X-Rays will prove to be a hoax.”
-Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1883

“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first 6 months. People will get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.”
-Darryl Zanuck

“Has there ever been a danger of war between Germany and ourselves, members of the same Teutonic race? Never has it even been imagined,”
-Andrew Carnegie

“It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways in the long distance movement of passengers.”
-American Railroad Congress, 1913

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
-Decca Executive, rejecting the Beatles, 1962

“The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood up on the stage.”
-Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Director, Producer and Studio Founder, 1916

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