“Woman may be said to be an inferior man.”
— Aristotle, 350 b.c.e.
“The ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication.”
— Western Union, 1876
“The horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad.”
— Horace Rackham, Michigan Savings Bank, 1903
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
— Ken Olsen, Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
“The cloning of mammals … is biologically impossible.”
— James McGrath and Davor Solter, genetic researchers, 1984
“Websites will never replace newspapers.”
— Newsweek, 1995
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share.”
— USA Today, 2007