1. "The radio craze ... will die out in time." -- Thomas Edison 1922.
2. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment corp., 1977
3. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
4. "X rays are a hoax." -- Lord Kelvin, physicist, president, Royal Society, 1895.
5. "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.
