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Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. Simon Newcomb, American astronomer (1903).

Atomic energy might be as good as our present-day explosives, but it is unlikely to produce anything very much more dangerous. Winston Churchill (1939).

But what ... is it good for? Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure. Henry Morton, President of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's incandescent lamp (c.1880).

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. Lord Kelvin, ca. 1895, British mathematician and physicist.

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


The abolishment of pain in surgery is a chimera. It is absurd to go on seeking it. . . . Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated in the consciousness of the patient. Dr. Alfred Velpeau (1839) French surgeon.

Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value. Editorial in the Boston Post (1865).

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons. Popular Mechanics, March 1949.


טוב שלא כולם מקשיבים למומחים, אחרת בטח היינו עדיין חיים במערות :-)