\"It\'ll Never Work!\"
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“ “ It’ll Never It’ll Never Work!” Work!”
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““It’ll Never It’ll Never Work!”Work!”
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.
- Albert Einstein, 1932.
Your cigarettes will never become popular.
- F. G. Alton, 1870cigar maker, turning down Mr. John Player
There is no hope for the fanciful idea of reaching the Moon because of insurmountable barriers to escaping the Earth's gravity.
- Dr. Forest Ray Moulton, University ofChicago astronomer, 1932
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977
Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.
- Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, 1946.
...no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery, and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air...
- Simon Newcomb (1835-1909), astronomer,head of the U.S. Naval Observatory
