Technology Quotes to Eat Crow By

"Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances."



--Dr. Lee DeForest, "Father of radio and grandfather of television"

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"



--Broadcasting mogul David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s

"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

"But what is it good for?"



--Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting on the microchip, 1968

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."



--Bill Gates, 1981