"We don't like their sound. And guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co., in rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"The ordinary 'horseless carriage' is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never come into as common use as the bicycle." -- The Literary Digest, 1889
"Landing and moving around the moon offer so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them", Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)