Electric Light - "good enough for our transatlantic friends, but unworthy of
the attention of practical or scientific men" British Parliment report on
Edison's work,
1878.

The Telephone - "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use
one of them?" Pres. Rutherford Hayes, 1876

Television - "People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every
night." Darryl F. Zanuck, head of Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946.

Computers - "There is no reason for any individual to have computer in their
home." Ken Olson, Pres. of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

Aviation - "The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines
speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers...it seems
safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary." Harvard astronomer Wm.
Henry Pickering, 1908.

Nuclear energy - "Nuclear powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality
within 10 years." vacuum cleaner manufacturer, Alex Lewyt, 1955.

Medicine - "The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will be forever shut from
the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon". leading British surgeon Sir
John Erichsen, 1837.

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