Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes

‘There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home’.
Kenneth Olsen, President & Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, in 1977.

‘Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value’.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French Military Strategist and future World War 1 Commander, in 1911.

‘Man will never reach the moon – regardless of all future scientific advances’.
Dr. Lee De Forest, Inventor of The Audion Tube and Father of Radio, on February 25, 1967.

‘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 F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, in 1946.

‘We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out’.
DECCA Records rejecting The Beatles in 1962.

‘For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect’.
Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles Surgeon, as quoted in NEWSWEEK, November 18, 1969.

‘This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The devise is inherently of no value to us’.
Western Union Internal Memo, in 1876.

‘The earth is the center of the universe’.
Ptolemy – the Great Egyptian Astronomer in the second century.

‘Nothing of importance happened today’.
Written by King George III of England on July 4 1776.

‘Everything that can be invented has been invented’.
Charles H. Duell, US Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.

Some people are just so ignorant but thankfully these discoveries were given the chance to revolutionize or evolutionize and have changed our lives greatly :) for the better; and at times - worst.
I have become so dependent on the computers and my mobile – it has become a very important tool for work and play – processing, storage and communicating. TV is a must – the bigger and flatter it is, the better they are for viewing :)