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Odd Predictions

 

"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax."
        - English scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, 1899

"Television won't matter in your lifetime or mine."
        - Radio Times editor Rex Lambert, 1936

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

"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that every- one in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy."
        - Time Magazine, 1966

"An impractical sort of fad, and has no place in the serious job of postal transportation."
        - Second Assistant U.S. Post- master General Paul Henderson on airmail, 1922

"It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."
        - Fashion designer CoCo Chanel on miniskirts, 1966

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

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
        - H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927

"You ought to go back to driving a truck."
        - Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley in 1954

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

"It doesn't matter what he does, he will never amount to anything."
        - Albert Einstein's teacher to his father, 1895