“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty, a fad.” - Michigan Savings Bank on Ford Motor, 1903.

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“Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.” - Thomas Edison, 1889

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“World potential market for copying machines is 5000 at most.” IBM to eventual Xerox founders 1959

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“The phonograph has no commercial value at all.” — Thomas Edison, 1880s

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“TV won’t last. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” Darryl Zanuck, producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946

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