This `telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a practical form of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
- Western Union internal memo, 1878
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
Diese und andere amüsante Fehleinschätzungen findet man hier.
Und weil es so gut hineinpasst : Hier ein Testbericht aus der Spreeblick : TV. Kurzer Hype oder Dienst mit Mehrwert?
Viel Spaß beim Lesen.
- Western Union internal memo, 1878
Well informed people know it is impossible to transmit the voice over wires and that were it possible to do so, the thing would be of no practical value.
- Editorial in the Boston Post, 1865
What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?
- The Quarterly Review, England (March 1825)
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
Diese und andere amüsante Fehleinschätzungen findet man hier.
Und weil es so gut hineinpasst : Hier ein Testbericht aus der Spreeblick : TV. Kurzer Hype oder Dienst mit Mehrwert?
Viel Spaß beim Lesen.