"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 everyone 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. Postmaster 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