How wrong can you be

Every math teacher everywhere in the 70's. Suck it Mrs. Krenchmeyer, I can look up that 13 + 11 = 21 anytime on my phone!

“Two years from now, spam will be solved.”

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004

“Apple is already dead.”

Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, 1997

“Almost all of the many predictions now being made about 1996 hinge on the Internet’s continuing exponential growth. But I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.”

Robert Metcalfe, founder of 3Com, 1995

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

“Nuclear-powered vacuum cleaners will probably be a reality within ten years.”

Alex Lewyt, president of Lewyt vacuum company, 1955

“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, executive at 20th Century Fox, 1946

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

“security, scalability and decentralisation” of crypto transactions was “not achievable,”