“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
Charles H. Duell, GO IGCommissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.”
Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march ofscience, 1949
“Television will never be a medium of entertainment”
David Sarnoff, the General Manager of RCA corporation, 1955
“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
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