I Can’ Believe It
I could sense that you like the “I Can’t Believe It” quotes, so here’s a few more.
”Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”
-Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895
“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
-Thomas Watson, chairman and founder of IBM, 1943
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.”
-Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
“The 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
“Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.”
-Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied
forces during the close of World War I, 1918
“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 radio in the 1920’s
“Everything that can be invented has been invented.”
-Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899
“Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?”
-Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927
Unbelievable!
Lon Safko
Serial Innovator, Keynote Speaker, Trainer, Innovative Thinking
Tags: innovative thinking, creative, creative thinking, Innovation, critical thinking definition, innovation definition, critical thinking skills, creative process
