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"By 1975 sexual feelings and marriage will have nothing to do with each other." - John Langdon, British Anthropologist, Journalist and Author of A Short History of the Future, 1936

"The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C.' the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University Management Professor (in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. Smith is the founder of Federal Express Corp.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899.

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, President , Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

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

"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

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" - David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging for investment in the radio 1930

"Television won't matter a bit in your lifetime or mine." - Rex Lambert, The Listener 1936

"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

"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." - Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the Audion Tube, New York Times February 26, 1957