'There is not the slightest indication that ________ will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.' - Albert Einstein, 1932
'We don't like their sound, and ________ is on the way out.' - Decca Recording Company on declining to sign the Beatles, 1962
'This '________' 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
'Reagan doesn't have that ________ look.' - United Artists executive after rejecting Ronald Reagan as lead in the 1964 film, The Best Man
'Rail travel at ________ is not possible because passengers, unable to breathe, would die of asphyxia.' - Dr. Dionysius Lardner, 1830
'I think there is a ________ for maybe five computers.' - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
'X-rays will prove to be a ________' - Lord Kelvin, President of the Royal Society, 1895
'Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous ________' - Henry Morton, president of the Stevens Institute of Technology, on Edison's light bulb, 1880
'The ________ is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty - a fad.' - The president of the Michigan Savings Bank on the Ford Motor Co., 1903
'________ won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.' - Darryl Zanuck, movie producer, 20th Century Fox, 1946
'No one will pay good money to get from Berlin to Potsdam in ________ when he can ride his horse there in one day for free.' - King William I of Prussia, on trains, 1864
'There is no reason for any individual to have a ________ in his home.' - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
'If excessive ________ actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor one.' - W.C. Heuper, National Cancer institute, 1954
'No, it will make war ________.' - Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, when asked if it would make war more terrible, 1893
'The wireless ________ has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to no one in particular?' - Answer to David Sarnoff about investments in radio, 1921
'There will never be a ________ plane built.' - Boeing engineer after the first flight of the 247, a twin engine plane that holds 10 people
'How, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind by ________ under her deck... Nonsense.' - Napoleon Bonaparte on Robert Fulton's steam boat, 1800s
'The idea that ________ will be replaced by these iron coaches is absurd. It is little short of treasonous.' - Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Haig during tank demonstration, 1916
'I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but ________ and floundering at sea.' HG Wells, 1901
'The world potential market for ________ is 5000 at most - IBM to the eventual founders of Xerox, 1959
'The Americans have plenty need for the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of ________.' - Sir William Preece, Chief Engineer, British Post Office, 1878
'It'll be ________ by June.' - Variety Magazine on Rock n' Roll, 1955
'When the Paris Exhibition closes, ________ will close with it and no more will be heard of it.' - Oxford professor Erasmus Wilson, 1878
'A rocket will never be able to ________ the Earth's atmosphere.' - New York Times, 1936
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