ou. We just want you to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come work for you.” And they said “No.” So we then went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said “ . . . We don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.”
– Apple Computer Inc. founder, Steve Jobs, on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer;
“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.”
– Decca Recording Co., rejecting the Beatles, 1962;
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
– H M Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927;
“The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?”
– David Sarnoff ’s associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s;
“Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.”
– 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard’s revolutionary rocket work;
“The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty – a fad.”
– Bank president advising Horace Rockham (Henry Ford’s lawyer) not to invest in Ford Motor Company, 1903;
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
– Lord Kelvin, president Royal Society, 1895;
“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;
“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You’re crazy.”
– Drillers whom Edwin L Drake tried to enlist to his project to drill for oil in 1859;
[Excerpted from the 'Catalysing Creativity' edition of The Braindancer Series of bookazines by Dilip Mukerjea. All the images in this post are the intellectual property of Dilip Mukerjea.]
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