Things they wish they'd never said

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. - Ken Olson, President of Digital Corporation, 1977

The Internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.’- Robert Metcalfe, internet inventor

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

Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943

Louis Pasteur’s theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction. - Pierre Pachet Professor Physiology, Toulouse, 1872

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. 

- Ronald Reagan, 1980