firing Elvis Presley
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." - English scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1899
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that every-one in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.
- Time Magazine, 1966
"An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the serious job of postal transportation." - Second Assistant U.S. Post-master General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922
"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming." - Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on miniskirts, 1966
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895
"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine." - Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman, and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that every-one in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy.
- Time Magazine, 1966
"An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the serious job of postal transportation." - Second Assistant U.S. Post-master General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922
"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming." - Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on miniskirts, 1966
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents,
1899
"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
"You ought to go back to driving a truck." - Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything." - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895
