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“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” ―Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles in 1962.

“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.

“Rail travel at high speed is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.” ―Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830.

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

“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty―a fad.” ―The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford’s lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Company, 1903.

“Television won’t last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” ―Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.

“It’ll be gone by June.” ―Variety Magazine on Rock n’ Roll, 1955.

“A rocket will never be able to leave the earth’s atmosphere.” ―The New York Times, 1936.

“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.

What did they say about you?