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    "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.


    "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
    - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.


    "But what...is it good for?"
    - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.


    "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home"
    - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977.


    "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who will 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 1920's.


    "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, 1887.


    "Who the [heck] wants to hear actors talk?"
    - H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.


    "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible."
    - Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.


    "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
    -Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
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    [Edited by Juan Carlos Rey on 12-06-2000 at 08:38 PM]
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