1. Everything that can be invented has been invented.

           (Commissioner of US Office of Patents 1899)

2. Computers in the future may weigh more than 1,5 tons.

           (Popular Mechanics 1949)

3. Data processing is a fad that won't last a year.

          (Editor of Business Books Prentice Hall Publishing 1957)

4. 640 K ought be enough for everybody.

          (Bill Gates 1981)

5. What is a microchip good for?

          (IBM Engineer 1968)

6. We don't like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.

          (Decca Recording Company rejecting The Beatles 1962)

7. Seriously to suggest salt and vinegar or beef flavoured potato chips is like

          maintaining that bingo is here to stay.

          (Marketing Adviser to Smith's Crisp 1969)

8. Stocks have reached what looks like a permanent high plateau.

         (Professor of Economics at Yale University 1929)

9. The abdomen, the chest and the brain will always be off limits to surgeons.

         (Surgeon General to Queen Victoria 1873)

10. The threat of AIDS will have wiped out prostitution as we know it by the end of the century.

       (Public Health Professor on Larry King Live 1986)