"500 dollars? Fully subsidized? With a plan? I said that is the most expensive phone in the world. And it doesn't appeal to business customers because it doesn't have a keyboard. Which makes it not a very good email machine." –Steve Ballmer on the introduction of the first iPhone
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"Two years from now, spam will be solved." –Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum in 2004
"We'll soon buy books and newspapers straight over the Internet. Uh, sure." –Clifford Stoll, author of 'Silicon Snake Oil.'
Steve Kovach, Business Insider
"There is practically no chance communications space satellites will be used to provide better telephone, telegraph, television, or radio service inside the United States." –FCC Commissioner T. Craven in 1961
NASA
"There's just not that many videos I want to watch." –Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube
Steve Kovach, Business Insider
"Television won't be able to hold onto any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night." –Daryl Zanuck, co-founder of 20th Century Fox
“The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.” –Steve Jobs in a Rolling Stone interview, 2003
