Ci goście naprawdę gruuubo pojechali ;-)
Zebrane ku uciesze i pamięci, że mądrzy tego świata też mogą się nieźle mylić:
- „We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on their way out.” Jeden z menedżerów, Decca Recording Co., odsyłając z kwitkiem Beatelsów, 1962
- „I think there is a world market for about five computers.” Thomas J. Watson, prezes IBM, 1943
- „Heavier-than-air-flying machines are impossible.” Lord Kelvin, Prezydent British Royal Society, 1895
- “This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.” notatka służbowa w Western Union, 1876
- “Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?” H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
- “So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.’” Steve Jobs opisujący bezskuteczne próby zainteresowania Atari i H-P przygotowanym przez niego i przez Steve Wozniak’a komputerem osobistym
- „Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.” Irving Fisher, Profesor Ekonomii Yale University, 1929
- „$100 million dollars is way too much to pay for Microsoft.” IBM, 1982
- “Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality in 10 years.” Alexander Lewyt, Lewyt Corp, 1953
i jeszcze na koniec, specjalnie dla miłośników innowacji:
- „Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
