We can't all be geniuses...

'We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out'. - Decca executive, 1962, after turning down the Beatles.

'I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

'This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.' - Western Union internal memo, 1876.

'Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?' - H. M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

'Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax.' - William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.

'The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.' - Admiral William Leahy, U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.

'There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.' Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp. 1977

'There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will'- Albert Einstein, 1932