"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.

"Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."
Workers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859.

"There will never be a bigger plane built."
A Boeing engineer, after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds ten people.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
Charles H. Duell from the U.S. Office of Patents, 1899