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Here are a good couple of quotes I've picked up over time. Enjoy! What were these folks thinking..?
See also the serious quotes and the fun quotes
Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
-- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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 1920s.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
-- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.
Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy.
-- Drillers who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.
Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
-- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
-- Bill Gates, 1981
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.)
Object Oriented Code is like sex. More people talk about it than are actually doing it. The few who are doing it are: doing it poorly, sure it will be better next time, and not practicing it safely.
-- Anonymous