``Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody will use it, ever.''
Thomas Edison
``I think there is a world market for about five computers.''
T.J. Watson, CEO, IBM, 1947
``I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year.''
Chief business ed., Prentice Hall , 1957