(These are not 'bad guys', merely proof that even 'experts' talk utter claptrap sometimes)
“Radio has no future.
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
X-rays will prove to be a hoax.”
William Thomson — Lord Kelvin
One time President of the Royal Society
1899
“Airplanes are interesting toys, but they are of no military value whatsoever.”
Marechal Ferdinand Fock,
Professor of Strategy,
Ecole Superieure de Guerre
“There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.”
Albert Einstein, 1932
“The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.”
Admiral William Leahy,
U.S. Atomic Bomb Project.
“We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.”
Decca executive, 1962,
after turning down the Beatles.
“There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.”
Ken Olsen,
President, Digital Equipment, 1977
“We don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.”
Hewlett Packard rejecting Steve Jobs,
who founded Apple Computers instead.
“Earlier on today apparently a lady rang the BBC and said she heard that there was a hurricane on the way. Well don't worry if you're watching, there isn't.”
Michael Fish, BBC Weatherman, on the evening of the 1987 hurricane.