By chronological order:

- “I think there is a world market for maybe 5 computers.” Tom Watson, Chairman of International Business Machines Inc., 1943

- “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson, Founder of Digital Equipment, 1977

- “You can probably build a nice little company based on web search technology, but you can’t build an empire on it.” Louis Monier, Founder of Altavista (now working for web search giant Google; also a former researcher @ DEC, see the former sentence)

I love these sentences. Not that I’m making fun of the great people who came up with these, but I wonder whether I’ll be able some day in my life to beat them.

Disclaimer: I know, I forgot Bill Gates’ supposedly “640 Kb should be enough for anyone” on purpose since he’s always claimed he never said so. I’m taking his word for it.