“Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances.”
-Dr. Lee DeForest, “Father of Radio & Grandfather of Television.”
“The Atomic bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”
-Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project
“There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.”
-Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
“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