Experts Who Really Got it Wrong'''

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[djone]

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall. 1957....."But what…is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing System Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip....."I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." -Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind".....We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." -Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962..."Drill for oil?' You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy."--Driller who Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859...“No one will need more than 637 kb of memory for a personal computer. 640K ought to be enough for anybody.”-Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, in 1981

[martin_fierro]

Frankly, would GWTW have been the same with Cooper instead of Gable?

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

c'mon, that was a slow, hanging curve ball.

[Tanniker Smith]

Yeah, but it took three responses for someone to hit it after I threw it out there.