Megan West(erby)

Hindsight is perfect, but…

lizlet:

1. “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.” Kenneth Olson, President and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation 1977

2. “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no real military value.” Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French military strategist and future WW1 commander in 1911

3. “[Man will never reach the moon] regardless of all future scientific advances.” Dr. Lee Forest, father of radio and the Audion tube, Feb 25, 1967

4. “[Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” Darryl F. Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox in 1946

5. “We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.” Decca Records rejecting the Beatles in 1962

6. “For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect.” Dr. Ian Macdonald, LA Surgeon, quoted in Newsweek Nov. 18. 1969

7. “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 in 1876

8. “The earth is the center of the universe.” Ptolemy, Egyptian astronomer.

9. “Nothing of importance happened today.” Written by King George on July 4, 1776

10. “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Charles Duell, US Commissioner of Patents, 1899

(via Mom)

20 July 2009 ·