what smart people said.

1. There is absolutely no reason for an individual to have a computer at home.
- Ken Olson, President of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977

2 Machines that are heavier than air and will never fly.
- Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, in 1895

3 I can imagine a total world market for maybe five computers.
- Chairman of IBM, Thomas Watson, in 1943.

4 Business people will not like it because it does not have a keyboard. Which makes it bad to send e-mail to.
- Steve Ballmer, head of Microsoft, the iPhone when it was launched.

5 TV will not be able to maintain its market position after six months. People will get tired of staring at a box every night.
- Daryl Zanuck, founder of 20th Century Fox

6. Subscription model for music is bankrupt.
- Steve Jobs, in 2003

7 Anything that can be invented has already been invented
- Charled H. Duell, Director of U.S. Office of Patents, 1989

8 Stocks have reached a permanently high level
Professor of Economics at Yale, Irving Fisher, in 1929

9 Who the hell want to hear actors talk?
H.M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers in 1927

10th In June, will not hear of it more
- Variety Magazine in early 1955 on rock.

11th Nobody will ever need more than 637KB of memory in a computer
- Bill Gates in 1981

12th There will never be a bigger plane built
An engineer during the presentation of the Boeing 247, a plane that could have ten passengers

13th Japanese cars will never get any big market in the world
- Business Week, in 1968

14th The car will never be as common as bicycle
- Literary Digest, 1899

15th There is almost no chance that satellites can be used to improve television reception in the United States.
- FCC Commissioner T. Craven in 1961

16. It's really not that many videos that are worth seeing
- Steve Chen, inventor of Youtube (perhaps he is right, so really ...)

17th No woman will become Prime Minister of England during my lifetime
- Margaret Thatcher, 1969

18th ... But, what do we use it?
IBM Chief Robert Lloyd, the microprocessor in 1968

19th A rocket will never be able to leave the Earth's atmosphere
New York Times in 1936

20th Cinemas, fashion, it will pass. People would much rather go to the theater.
Charlie Chaplin, 1916

21st The potential market for copying machines is 5000, maximum.
IBM to what became the founders of Xerox in 1959

22, Nuclear energy is certainly as good as today's explosives, but it is very unlikely that it can be particularly more devastating.
Winston Churchill in 1939

23, A man would not fly for 50 years
Wilbur Wright in 1901 (two years later fled his brother in their first flight)

24th Smart women do not want to vote
Grover Cleveland, President of the United States in 1905

and, our favorite, although it's a bit tragic - and the future was not far away is said by General John Sedgwick during the Battle of Spotsylvania in the Civil War in the United States on 9 May 1864:

- They could not hit an elephant at this dist ...

If you wonder. He died on 9 May 1864. Tweet