"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