20 known categorical statements:

1 . Stones can't be on a silver platter, they there have no place to undertake! (The Parisian Academy of Sciences about meteorites, 1772)

2 . In the future computers will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. (Popular Mechanics log, 1949)

3 . I think that in the world market we will find demand for five computers. (Thomas Watson – the director of the company of IBM, 1943)

4 . I traveled all over this country up and down, communicated with the most smart people and I can warrant you that data handling is only whim the mode on which will hold on no more than a year. (editor of Prentice Hall publishing house, 1957)

5 . But that... can be the useful in this piece? (a question on discussion of creation of a microchip in Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968)

6 . Anybody can have no need to have the computer in the house. (Ken Olson – the founder and the president of Digital Equipment Corp corporation. 1977)

7 . Such device as phone has too many shortcomings to consider it as a communications medium. Therefore, I consider that this invention has no value. (from discussions in the Western Union company in 1876)

8 . This musical box without wires can't have any commercial value. Who will pay the messages which haven't been intended for any private person? (David Sarnov's business partners in response to his sentence to invest the project of creation of radio, 1920)

9 . The concept is interesting and well issued. But, in order that the idea started working, it shall contain common sense. (Yale University professorate in response to Fred Smith's sentence about the organization of service of fast delivery; Fred Smith becomes the founder of a delivery service of Federal Express Corp. )

10 . Yes, whom, to devils, talks of actors interest? (response of Warner Brothers to sound use in a motion-picture, 1927)
11 . We don't like their sound and, generally, guitar quartets are yesterday. (Decca Recording Co. the rejected recording of the album of The Beatles group, in 1962)

12 . Aircraft heavier than air are impossible! (Lord Calvin – the physicist, the president of Royal Scientific Organization – in 1895)

13 . Professor Goddard doesn't understand the relations between action and response, he doesn't know that for response conditions more suitable, than vacuum are necessary. It seems that the professor tests an acute shortage in elementary knowledge which are taught at high school. (the editorial in the New York Times newspaper, devoted to Robert Goddard's revolutionary operation on creation of the rocket, 1921)

14 . Earth drilling in search of oil? You mean, what it is necessary to drill the earth to find oil? You went mad. (the response to Edwin Drake's project in 1859)

15 . Airplanes – interesting toys, but they don't represent any military value. (marshal Ferdinand Fosh, the professor of strategy in Academy of the General Staff of France)

16 . Everything that could be invented, already invented. (Charles Dyyuell – the special representative of the American Bureau of Patents, 1899)

17 . Louis Pasteur's theory about microbes – the ridiculous imagination. (Pierre Pasch – the professor of psychology of university of Toulouse, 1872)

18 . The stomach, breast and brain will be always closed for invasion of the wise and humane surgeon. (Sir John Eric Eriksen – the British doctor assigned the principal surgeon of queen Victoria, 1873)

19 . The 640th kilobyte of memory shall be enough for everyone. (Bill Gates, 1981)

20 . 100 million dollars – too high price for Microsoft. (IBM, 1982)

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