"640K ought to be enough for everybody", Bill Gates, 1981
"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.", Western Union internal memo, 1876
"Computer in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tones.", Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.", Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers", T. Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
"But what is it good for?", IBM commenting on the development of the Microchip. 
"We will think about software more as a service than we have in the past.", Bill Gates, Microsoft Chief Software Architect, 2000
“Landing and moving around on the moon offer so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them” Lord Kelvin, (1824-1907)
"X-rays are a hoax", Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
"Radio has no future", Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
"Heavier than air flying machines are impossible" Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)
"In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.", Bill Gates
"I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.", Bill Gates
"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.", Bill Gates
"The reason you see open source there at all is because we came in and said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions of machines.", Bill Gates