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“I don’t think the success of the iPod can continue in the long term.” Bill Gates, Microsoft (2005)
“I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.” Robert Metcalfe, 3Com Founder and inventor of Ethernet (1995)
“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, Digital Equipment Corporation CEO (1977)
“Television won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.” Darryl Zanuck, 20th Century Fox
“These Google guys, they want to be billionaires and rock stars and go to conferences and all that. Let us see if they still want to run the business in two to three years.” Bill Gates, Microsoft (2003)
“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” Steve Ballmer, Microsoft (2007)
Jeff :: May.04.2011 :: Interesting Stuff :: No Comments »
