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"The cinema is little more than a fad" - Charlie Chaplin, 1916

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - Henry Warner, president of Warner Bros, 1927

"Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little" - MGM on Fred Astaire's screen test, 1928

"The regretful verdict here is: dead in the water" - Time Magazine's review of Titanic, 1997

"It will be gone by June" - Variety magazine on Rock and Roll, 1955

"We don't like their sound. Groups with guitars are on the way out" - Decca on the Beatles, 1962

"Everything invented has been invented" - Charles Duell (head of the US patents office), 1899

"(Edison's ideas)...are unworthy of the attention of practical or scientific men" - British Parilament report on the electric light bulb, 1878

"Who would ever want to use one?" - US president Rutherford Hayes on the telephone

"Radio has no future" - Lord Kelvin, 1897

"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible" - Lord Kelvin (again). 1895

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine", The Listener magazine, 1936

"I think there is a world market for about 5 computers" - Thomas Watson (Chairman of IBM), 1943

"We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet" - HP on Steve Jobs and his "personal computer", 1976

"Get your feet off my desk, get out of here; you stink and we're not going to buy your product" - Joe Keenan (president of Atari) also to Steve Jobs, 1976

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home" - Ken Olson (president of DEC) to - you guessed it - Steve Jobs, 1976

"640k ought to be enough for everyone" - Bill Gates on computer memory, 1981

"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad" - advice to a potential investor in Henry Ford's new venture, 1903

"With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto industry isn't like to carve out a big slice of the US market" - Business Week, 1968

"The machine gun is a grossly over-rated weapon" - Field Marshal Haig, 1914

"A pretty, mechanical toy" - Lord Kitchener on tanks, 1917

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