Here are some of them:
«We will bury you.»
Nikita Krushchev, Soviet Premier, predicting Soviet communism will win over U.S. capitalism, 1958.- «Everything that can be invented has been invented.»
Charles H. Duell, an official at the US patent office, 1899. - «It will be gone by June.»
Variety, passing judgement on rock 'n roll in 1955. - «A short-lived satirical pulp.»
TIME, writing off Mad magazine in 1956. - «This antitrust thing will blow over.»
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft. - «It will be years - not in my time - before a woman will become Prime Minister.»
Margaret Thatcher, future Prime Minister, October 26th, 1969. - «Read my lips: NO NEW TAXES.»
George Bush, 1988. - «Reagan doesn’t have that presidential look.» -– United Artists Executive, rejecting Reagan as lead in 1964 film The Best Man.
- «The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad.»
The president of the Michigan Savings Bank advising Henry Ford's lawyer not to invest in the Ford Motor Co., 1903. - «There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.»
Albert Einstein, 1932. - «Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?»
H. M. Warner, co-founder of Warner Brothers, 1927. - «Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.»
Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946.
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